Re: [Matplotlib-users] Clip or skip lines going over border of canvas

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2014/03/06 10:43 PM, svebert wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I plot measurment data and connect them with lines (style eg. "-*r"). Points
> which are outside of the ylimits are still connected with points which are
> inside of the ylimits. Is there any way to tell matplot to only connect two
> points if both are inside the y/x-limits?
> Because now i get weird lines crossing the whole canvas if some points
> spread to much from the mean data.
>
> Removing points before plotting is not an option because then points are
> connected which are not in consecutive order. Matplotlib should just skip a
> connecting line when one of the two points lies without the canvas/limits.

It sounds like what you need to do is either use a masked array and mask 
out the points that are outside the limits, or use NaNs for that purpose.

Eric

>
> Is there any simple way/option to do tha?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sven
>
>
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