but currently there doesn't seem to be a way to discern
> whether the current xaxis.viewlim was manually set or is the
> result of autoscale. Should this be a feature (set_xlim
> "sticks")? Does Axis need an autoscale attribute to enable
> this?
OK, just added this to CVS. Thanks for the suggestion. Until the
next release, you can just put the xlim set after the plot commands.
> This is version 0.52 (which btw has matplotlib.version set
> to '0.51').
Fixed - thanks,
JDH