On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >> Thanks! And, argh! I stared at the output of k.plot? for 10-15 >> minutes before in response to the original email, and axes_pad isn't >> even there. That would have been useful many times in my class >> last year. That will teach me to read the source more. > > > It's an option to show() (and documented there).
I see, so it has absolutely nothing at all to do a priori with plotting graphs. Fair enough. > I added it in August > when we redid the matplotlib backend with the new axes code, so I don't > think it would have been useful last year :). The default is .02 (so > the picture is 4% wider and 4% taller than originally specified), so > that we don't clip plotted points, etc. That's one of those quick hackish design decisions that comes back to haunt us over the years... can one just query matplotlib for a range that contains all the elements in the plot? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
