On 03/30/2012 08:47 AM, Skipper Seabold wrote:
> There is probably a simple answer to this, but I don't see it. How can
> I pad the axis limits automatically? For instance, in the below
> example, the x axis limits are the data points and the y limit is
> close. I want to have a function that pads the axis limit at least, by
> say, 10% of the range of x past the last data point without having to
> take my x values and calculate some sensible x limit. Is this
> possible?

Does the margins() function or method do what you want?

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.margins

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html?highlight=margins#matplotlib.axes.Axes.margins

Eric

>
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> x = [1,2,3]
> y = [8125, 9754, 10855]
> ax.plot(x,y,marker='D',ms=12)
> plt.show()
>
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