On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> Thanks for the tip, Eric. I'm continually surprised by all the useful
stuff that's nestled in the corners of matplotlib.
Hmm, it looks like `margins` doesn't support log scales, though. Maybe I'll
submit a PR on this later.
Best,
-Tony
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