[Matplotlib-users] Bizarre clipping of title when markers used

Thomas Caswell tcaswell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 11:21:04 EDT 2018


Neal,

Can you reproduce this with random data?  From which side is the text
clipped?

Tom

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:18 AM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
>
> > I haven't been able to reproduce yet in a minimal example, but in this
> > code, if markers are used in the plot, then the title is clipped off and
> > not shown.  If the markers= is commented out, then the title is fine.  I
> > know it's clipped, because if I specify
> > set_title ('blah', y=0.5) < set y to something < .95
> > Then the title is displayed (but in the wrong position).
> >
> > So, if markers are present, title is clipped off.  No markers, title is
> > fine.
> >
> > My code is here (you can't run it I'm afraid):
> >
> > matplotlib=2.2.2
> >
> > import pandas as pd
> >
> > def do_plot(other_csv, mine_xlsx, name):
> >     df_tdla_96 = pd.read_csv (other_csv)
> >     df_tdla_96_mine = pd.read_excel (mine_xlsx)
> >     df_tdla_96_mine = df_tdla_96_mine[['esno_corrected', 'per']]
> >     df_tdla_96_mine.rename (index=str, columns={'esno_corrected' : 'SNR',
> > 'per' : 'Hughes'}, inplace=True)
> >     df_tdla_96.drop(labels='Hughes', inplace=True, axis=1)
> >     df_tdla_96_merge = pd.merge(left=df_tdla_96, right=df_tdla_96_mine,
> > on='SNR')
> >     from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
> >     from itertools import cycle
> >     m_cycle = cycle(Line2D.filled_markers)
> >     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> >     fig, ax = plt.subplots()#, sharex=True)
> >     for company  in df_tdla_96_merge.columns[1:]:
> >         df = df_tdla_96_merge[['SNR', company]]
> >         ax.semilogy(df['SNR'], df[company], marker='x')
> >     ax.set_title('Simple plot')
> >     #ax.set_title('blah', fontsize=12, y=0.95)
> >     # ax.set_xlabel('SNR')
> >     # ax.set_ylabel('BLER')
> >     # ax.legend(loc='best')
> >     #fig.suptitle('blah', fontsize=12, x=0.5, y=0.9)
> >     ax.grid()
> >     #plt.tight_layout()
> >     plt.show()
> >
> >     #plt.tight_layout()
> >     #plt.savefig('tdla_96.pdf')
> >
> > do_plot('tdla_96_other.csv', 'tdla_96_mrc_wiener.xlsx', 'TDLA 96
> CP-OFDM')
>
> It appears adding ax.set(clip_on=False) fixes it, but this bug seems very
> strange.
>
>
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