barh takes an optional argument "log". set this True (or you may set "left" with some meaningful value, other than 0)
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.barh -JJ On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Donovan Parks <donovan.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've encountered two bugs recently in matplotlib. I am hoping someone > can tell me if these are known issues and if any workarounds have been > proposed. The bug occurs for horizontal bar chart where the x-axis has > a log scale: > > from pylab import * > > val = 3+10*rand(5) # the bar lengths > pos = arange(5)+.5 # the bar centers on the y axis > > axes = subplot(111) > axes.barh(pos,val, align='center') > axes.set_xscale('log') > > for a in axes.yaxis.majorTicks: > a.tick1On=False > a.tick2On=False > > for a in axes.xaxis.majorTicks: > a.tick1On=True > a.tick2On=False > > for loc, spine in axes.spines.iteritems(): > if loc in ['left','right','top']: > spine.set_color('none') > > show() > > If you run this code, you will see that only the end caps of the > horizontal bars are drawn. Furthermore, tick marks appear at the top > of the plot (despite explicitly turning them off). If a linear scale > is used the plot is generated as expected. The issue with tick marks > appearing incorrectly with log axes appears to occur with many types > of graphs (well, at least the three I tried). > > Can anyone suggest how I might plot a bar chart with a log scale? Is > there any other way I might force the tick marks at the top to not be > drawn? > > Thanks for any and all help. > > Cheers, > Donovan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
