Scaling--I couldn't find it, but should this be in FAQ list?

I’m tinkering with a modified version of http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/barchart_demo.py :

# a bar plot with errorbars
# a bar plot with errorbars
from pylab import *

N = 5
menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
menStd = ( 2, 3, 4, 1, 2)

ind = arange(N) # the x locations for the groups

width = 0.35 # the width of the bars
p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=menStd)

womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
womenStd = ( 3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
p2 = bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y', yerr=womenStd)

ylabel('Scores')
title('Scores by group and gender')
xticks(ind+width, ('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5') )
xlim(-width,len(ind))
yticks(arange(0,41,10))

legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('Men', 'Women'), shadow=True)
show()

I
would like to shrink the graph height to a third or a fourth of its
present value, and possibly cut the padding. How can I control that?

TIA,

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Jonathan Hayward http://JonathansCorner.com

I would like to shrink the graph height to a third or a fourth of its
present value, and possibly cut the padding. How can I control that?

You can create an axes for plotting into with whatever dimensions you
want, by manually spcifying

  axes([left, bottom, width, height])

where each are in relative 0..1 coordinates. Eg, for a smaller height
with more padding all around

  axes([0.2, 0.2, 0.6, 0.4])

JDH