hi the recent announcment of matplotlib 0.9 made me look through my notes on bugs I've found. With 0.87.7 pylab.axis does not support setting of axislimits, I have attached a crash report. I think the problem is a change in the handling of kwargs in set_*lim in axes.py.
/Jörgen In [1]: x=arange(0,pi,0.1) In [2]: plot(x,sin(x)) Out[2]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x01BF6828>] In [3]: axis(ymin=-1) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> Traceback (most recent call last) C:\Python25\<ipython console> in <module>() c:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py in axis(*v=(), **kwargs={'ymin': -1}) 622 """ 623 ax = gca() --> 624 v = ax.axis(*v, **kwargs) v = () ax.axis = <bound method Subplot.axis of <matplotlib.axes.Subplot instance at 0x01BEF1E8>> kwargs = {'ymin': -1} 625 draw_if_interactive() 626 return v c:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes.py in axis(self=<matplotlib.axes.Subplot instance at 0x01BEF1E8>, *v=(), **kwargs={'ymin': -1}) 774 try: v[0] 775 except IndexError: --> 776 xmin, xmax = self.set_xlim(**kwargs) xmin = undefined xmax = undefined self.set_xlim = <bound method Subplot.set_xlim of <matplotlib.axes.Subplot instance at 0x01BEF1E8>> kwargs = {'ymin': -1} 777 ymin, ymax = self.set_ylim(**kwargs) 778 return xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: set_xlim() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ymin' In [4]: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel