Yes, using spines will be best in most situation. The problem with using axes_grid toolkit is that some mpl commands that changes the properties of the ticks and ticklabels do not work.
I think you may consider to use axes_grid if you want to keep both of the bottom and top axis, which I guess would be very rare. -JJ On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM, John Hunter<jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:14 AM, <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to understand some of the changes in 0.99, for example, the >> recommended way of getting a plot so that the axes cross at the origin >> (i.e., the axes are in the middle of the plot). I see two examples that >> seem to give this: >> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/spine_placement_demo.html >> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/simple_axisline2.html >> >> Is one or the other of these methods the recommended way to get a plot >> with axes in the middle that cross at the origin? Or are they both good >> and apply to different situations? > > I'll let Andrew and JJ fill in some color, since they wrote the spine > and axes_grid, respectively, but both are good. The spines are in the > mainline and JJ's solution is in a toolkit, so when in doubt go with > something in the mainline since that is more likely to be stable. > Both JJ and Andrew will be attending the scipy sprint this year (if > you're going to be there be sure to stop by), and one of the items on > our agenda is to incorporate their work into a unified API in the > mainline. So there may be some changes to one or both approaches, but > hopefully soon we will have most of the feature set of both in our > main axis code. > > JDH > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
