On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:52 AM, <g.plantagen...@runbox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with plotting two different quantities on the same plot
> (overlaying two different axes).
> I plot two different quantities, with different scales, on two overlapping
> axes. So, I want the quantity 1 to refer to the y axis on the left (with its
> ticks and labels), and quantity 2 to refer to the y axis on the right (with
> its ticks and labels). I choose on which side I want the ticks with
> ax.yaxis.tick_left(). Anyway, if I want then to change the label size of the
> right y axis, I can't do that. I included a sample plot.
>
> My code is something like this:
>
> F = figure()
> #First quantity
> AX1 = F.add_axes(rect)
> AX1.plot(x1,y1)
> AX1.yaxis.tick_left() #with this I say quantity 1=left y axis
> AX1.set_yticks(range(2,14,2))
> AX1.set_yticklabels(range(2,14,2),size=20)
> #Second quantity (with different scale)
> AX2 = F.add_axes(rect,frameon=False)
> AX2.plot(x2,y2)
> AX2.yaxis.tick_right() #If I leave this line, I can't change the tick label
> size, if I remove it, I get ticks on both sides
> AX2.set_yticks(np.arange(16.8,18.8,0.4))
> AX2.set_yticklabels(np.arange(16.8,18.8,0.4),size=20,position=(1.08,0))
Instead of tick_right() try:
AX2.yaxis.set_ticks_position('right')
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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