[Tutor] matmolplot

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/06/2010 14:14, saurabh agrawal wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to make plot using following code:-----------#!/usr/bin/pythonimport numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport stringfrom pylab import savefigfrom sys import argv
> #input file as first argumentf1=argv[1]f = open(f1,'r')line=f.readlines()f.close()
> f2 = f1.split(".")#f3 = f2[0].split("-")
> l1=[];l2=[]for lines in line:  lin=lines.split()  l1.append(float(lin[0]))  l2.append(float(lin[1]))  #print max(l2)  for i in range(len(l2)):  plt.axvline(x=l1[i], ymin=0, ymax=l2[i], linewidth=2, color='r')
> plt.axis([350, 650, 0.0, max(l2)])plt.grid(True)savefig(f2[0]+"-"+"uv.png",dpi=(600/8))plt.show()----------------
> My problem is the output plot I am getting is not showing correct values in the plot as are in the input file (MS.txt - attached). It looks like it is scaled to lower value.
> Please help.
> Regards,
> Saurabh
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If I've managed to reformat your code correctly, the problem is the call 
to plt.axis which sets xmin to 350, compare this to your data values 
where the lowest value of x is 233.27.

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HTH.

Mark Lawrence.