Re: [Matplotlib-users] 2 overlaid plots with grid??

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

I seem to recall that the MaxNLocator and some carefully chosen axes limits
suffices for me in the past.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Adam Hughes <hug...@gm...>
wrote:

> I wrote a program that draws grids manually on mpl plots a while back.  If
> you can't find a solution can you write back here and I'll try to get that
> dusted off?
> On Oct 21, 2014 2:39 PM, "Benjamin Root" <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>> Well, the first part is easy... it is called twinx(). If you look up axis
>> twinning in the documentation, you will find a lot of examples of this.
>>
>> As for the grids part... that would be tricky. I would first just see if
>> matplotlib "just does the right thing". Doubtful, but who knows? Then I
>> would likely go the route of lining up the major ticks on both axes so that
>> the grid lines for one axes match up with the ticks for the other.
>>
>> Let us know what you find out. Maybe it might be a useful feature to add
>> for twinning.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Neal Becker <ndb...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> I need to overlay 2 different plots.  They will share an x-axis, but
>>> will have 2
>>> different y axis with 2 different sets of units.  I want one y-axis on
>>> left and
>>> one on right.
>>>
>>> But to make it harder, I want a grid.  That means, there are either 2
>>> different
>>> grids, which is ugly, or one plot has to be scaled vertically so that
>>> the same y
>>> grid can be shared between them.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to do this?
>>>
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