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Hi all,

i have a lot of label entrys, which i want to put above the figure. My
problem is, i use 2 yaxes so a simple axes([]) call isn`t working.

Plotting graphs with only one x and y axes, using i.e.
"axes([0.1,0.1,0.9,0.8)]" worked perfect. Printing the legends for the
plots is working too, but the legend is above the figure, see example
code below. So how do i shrink the figure size so the legend isn`t
overlapping the graphs?

### Example code ###

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as mpl

fig = mpl.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(111)

# Using axes won`t work here
# mpl.axes([0.1,0.1,0.9,0.7])

x = np.linspace(1,10,10)
y = np.linspace(1,10,10)

ax1.plot(x,y**2,'g-',label='y(x)=x**2')
ax1.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0.,0.92,1.,.1),
		loc=10,ncol=1,mode='expand',borderaxespad=0.)

ax2 = ax1.twinx()
ax2.plot(x,y,'b.',label='y(x)=x')
ax2.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0.,1.,1.,.1),
		loc=10,ncol=1,mode='expand',borderaxespad=0.)

mpl.show()

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Hello,

I am plotting polar graphs for a university project, the data is
confidential but I based the work on this example
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/polar_demo.html
and fortunately
the same problem occurs with this. If you take that code and change the
last four lines from:

ax.set_rmax(2.0)grid(True)
ax.set_title("And there was much rejoicing!", fontsize=20)show()

To:

ax.set_rmax(3.01)
ax.set_rmin(2.91)
grid(True)ax.set_title("And there was much rejoicing!", fontsize=20)show()

and then run the script.

The min and max needs to be very tight so that the data I am looking at can
be displayed properly. With the tight axis range, the labels end up of to
the top right, they are just visible on my screen (1920x1080) when the
graph is maximised.

After some experimenting the smaller the range between the maximum and
minimum values the further to the right the labels go. I have not looked
into the coding of the polar module as my python knowledge is not great,
but my guess is that the labels are a set distance from the radial markers.

So my question is how do I move the radial labels back to the correct
location?

I hope I have not missed the answer in the documentation. I have installed
version 1.1.0 of matplotlib and its still a problem in it, thanks for the
good instructions on how to do it on ubuntu.

I look forward to any help.

Luke

hi everyone, I run python 2.7.2. in Eclipse (recently upgraded from 2.6). I
have a problem with installing matplotlib (I found the version for python
2.7. MacOs 10.3, no later versions). If I run python in terminal using arch
-i386 python, and then 

from matplotlib.pylab import *

and similar stuff, everything works fine. If I run python in eclipse or just
without arch -i386, I can import matplotlib as 

from matplotlib import  *

but actually nothing gets imported. If I do it in the same way as above, I
get the message

no matching architecture in universal wrapper

which means there's conflict of versions or something like that. I tried
reinstalling the interpreter and adding matplotlib to forced built-ins, but
nothing helped. For some reason I didn't have this problem with numpy and
tkinter. 

Any suggestions are appreciated. 
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