As you know, in MATLAB, axis([-inf inf 0 10]) means that the
> range of x-axis is determined automatically while the range
> of y-axis is set manually to the range from 0 to 10.
> In current Matplotlib, it seems there is no support for that
> kind of partial range setting. If so, how about adding a
> little intelligence on the axis function, like
>>>> axis([None, None, 0, 10]).
This is certainly easy enough - does matlab also support
>> axis([-inf, 5, 0, 10]).
in which case on the lower xlim is set automatically and the upper
xlim is 5?
> And, any specific reason there is no xlim or ylim function?
I didn't know matlab had them 
I'll add them. In the meantime:
ax.set_xlim((xmin, xmax))
or
set(gca(), 'xlim', (xmin, xmax))
or
set(ax, xlim=(xmin, xmax))
and so on ...
···
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