[Matplotlib-users] axes.text() plotting text outside of axes bounds

[Daryl H. <ak...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm wondering why stuff plotted with ax.text() does not get "clipped" by
the axes bounds on the plot.  Here's a simple example, run with 1.3.1:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

(fig, ax) = plt.subplots(1,1)

for i in range(5):
  for j in range(5):
    ax.text(i,j, "%sx%s" % (i,j), ha='center', va='center')
ax.plot([0,8],[0,8])
ax.set_xlim(0,2.8)
ax.set_ylim(0,2.8)
fig.savefig('test.png')

and attached output.  This causes me lots of grief with basemap as well.
 Is there a non-brute-force trick to get these values plotted outside the
axes bounds removed?

daryl