Re: [Matplotlib-users] 1. twinx and grid (garyr)

[Nicolas F. <nic...@gm...>]

Hi Gary 

To get more control on which grid shows / doesn't, you can do:

ax1.grid('on')
ax2.grid('off') 

instead of: 

plt.grid()

Nico 

On 9/02/2014, at 5:34 pm, mat...@li... wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:29:16 -0800
> From: "garyr" <ga...@fi...>
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] twinx and grid
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> The script below labels both the left and right x-axes and shows a grid. Is
> there a way to force the horizontal grid lines to line up with the tic marks on
> the left axis (ax1)?
> 
> import numpy as np
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax1 = fig.add_subplot(111)
> t = np.arange(0.01, 10.0, 0.01)
> s1 = np.exp(t)
> ax1.plot(t, s1, 'b-')
> ax2 = ax1.twinx()
> s2 = np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
> ax2.plot(t, s2, 'r')
> plt.grid()
> plt.show()
> 
> 

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