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Hi,

I have to problems when using a table with bar.

On the first one I use this code:

         for row in xrange(rows):
             bars = axes.bar(ind, yearValues[row], width, bottom=yoff, 
color=colours[row])
             yoff = yoff + yearValues[row]

             cellText.append(['%d' % (round(x*1.0, 0)) for x in 
yearValues[row]])

         axes.set_xticks([]) # remove the default ticks

         axes.set_ylabel(labelDesc)

         # Add a table at the bottom of the axes
         the_table = axes.table(cellText=cellText,
                           rowLabels=rowLabels, rowColours=colours,
                           colLabels=colLabels,
                           loc='bottom')
         the_table.set_fontsize(10)

My problem is that the bars are taking up to much space and only a 
portion of my table is shown.

My second problem uses this code:
         for row in xrange(rows):
             # purchase values
             bars = axes.bar(ind, yearValuesP[row], width, bottom=yoffP, 
color=colours[row])
             yoffP = yoffP + yearValuesP[row]

             # consumption values
             bars = axes.bar(ind, yearValuesC[row], width, bottom=yoffC, 
color=colours[row])
             yoffC = yoffC + yearValuesC[row]

             cText = []
             for x in range(len(yearValuesP[row])):
                 xP = round(yearValuesP[row][x], 0)
                 xC = round(yearValuesC[row][x], 0)
                 xN = xP + xC

                 cText.append('%d - %d = %d' % (xP, -xC, xN))

             cellText.append(cText)

         # add a line to mark zero
         axes.axhline(linewidth=4, color='k')

         # add a line for net change
         netVal = yoffP + yoffC
         aLine = axes.plot(indNet, netVal, 'o-', color='blue', linewidth=4)
         autolabelLine(aLine, axes)

         axes.set_xticks([]) # remove the default ticks

         axes.set_ylabel(labelDesc)

         # Add a table at the bottom of the axes
         the_table = axes.table(cellText=cellText,
                           rowLabels=rowLabels, rowColours=colours,
                           colLabels=colLabels,
                           loc='bottom')
         the_table.set_fontsize(10)

Here the full table is shown but the text is too small to read.

In both cases I tried 'axes.autoscale(tight=True)' and played with the 
font size but with no success.

Would appreciate any tips on what I may do wrong or what else I need to 
do to have things show correctly.

Werner

P.S.
This is with MPL 1.3.1, with numpy 1.6.1 on Py2.7 32bit on Win7