Axis line width and label problem

Community matplotlib-users
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I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to increase the line width of the axes? I have figured out how to do it
with the tick marks, but not the axes themselves.

2. When adding a label to plot (xlabel and ylabel) the label will be cropped if the font is
large. Is there a way to rescale the plot so that the size of the axis is adjusted to allow
for the larger font size? If not, how do I increase the buffer zone outside the plot?

Cheers
  Tommy

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I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to increase the line width of the axes? I have figured out how to do it
with the tick marks, but not the axes themselves.

for s in ax.spines.values():
     s.set_linewidth(5)

2. When adding a label to plot (xlabel and ylabel) the label will be cropped if the font is
large. Is there a way to rescale the plot so that the size of the axis is adjusted to allow
for the larger font size? If not, how do I increase the buffer zone outside the plot?

There is no automatic way to handle this, but you can change the axes position either directly (set_position method of the Axes), or by using subplots_adjust if you have created the axes as a subplot.

Eric

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On 11/21/2010 11:21 AM, Tommy Grav wrote:

Cheers
   Tommy