[Matplotlib-users] How to center axes intersecting at (0,0)

[Benjamin Root]

Just for completeness for the thread, the proper term for what you want to
modify is "spines". Some documentation is here:
http://matplotlib.org/api/spines_api.html#matplotlib.spines

Cheers!
Ben Root

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Michael Droettboom <mdroettboom at continuum.io
> wrote:

> This is actually the subject of Nicolas Rougier's great tutorial here:
> http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/teaching/matplotlib/
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:01 AM, sh77 via Matplotlib-users <
> matplotlib-users at python.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to matplotlib. I would like to do something very simple. In the
>> figure created by the following code, I would like the axes to be centered
>> in the figure and intersecting at point (0,0):
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> plt.plot([1,2,3,4], [1,-4,9,-16], 'ro')
>> plt.axis([-6, 6, -20, 20])
>> plt.title('Title')
>> plt.show()
>>
>> Can you please give me the simplest lines of code to achieve this? (the
>> hints to solutions that I have seen over the internet are amazingly
>> complex
>> for such a simple task)
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> saikari
>>
>>
>>
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