All,
On: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/artists.html
In the Axes Container section, you can see in what follows that I got some very different responses than what is shown on the page:
In [1]: fig=figure()
In [3]: ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
In [4]: rect=matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((1,1),width=5,height=12)
In [5]: print rect.get_axes()
------> print(rect.get_axes())
None
In [6]: print rect.get_transform()
------> print(rect.get_transform())
BboxTransformTo(Bbox(array([[ 1., 1.],
[ 6., 13.]])))
In [7]: ax.add_patch(rect)
Out[7]: <matplotlib.patches.Rectangle object at 0x2144db0>
In [8]: print rect.get_axes()
------> print(rect.get_axes())
Axes(0.125,0.1;0.775x0.8)
In [9]: print rect.get_transform()
------> print(rect.get_transform())
CompositeGenericTransform(BboxTransformTo(Bbox(array([[ 1., 1.],
[ 6., 13.]]))), CompositeGenericTransform(TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())), CompositeAffine2D(BboxTransformFrom(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0., 0.],
[ 1., 1.]])), TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())))), BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0.125, 0.1 ],
[ 0.9 , 0.9 ]])), BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0., 0.],
[ 8., 6.]])), Affine2D(array([[ 80., 0., 0.],
[ 0., 80., 0.],
[ 0., 0., 1.]])))))))))
In [10]: print ax.transData
-------> print(ax.transData)
CompositeGenericTransform(TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())), CompositeAffine2D(BboxTransformFrom(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0., 0.],
[ 1., 1.]])), TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())))), BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0.125, 0.1 ],
[ 0.9 , 0.9 ]])), BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0., 0.],
[ 8., 6.]])), Affine2D(array([[ 80., 0., 0.],
[ 0., 80., 0.],
[ 0., 0., 1.]]))))))))
In [11]: print ax.get_xlim()
-------> print(ax.get_xlim())
(0.0, 1.0)
In [12]: print ax.dataLim.get_bounds()
-------> print(ax.dataLim.get_bounds())
···
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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/6.0.0/Examples/matplotlib-0.99.1.1/event_handling/<ipython console> in <module>()
AttributeError: 'Bbox' object has no attribute 'get_bounds'
In [13]: ax.autoscale_view()
In [14]: print ax.get_xlim()
-------> print(ax.get_xlim())
(1.0, 6.0)
In [15]: ax.figure.canvas.draw()
David.