python - change matplotlib axis settings

Question

How do I get control over the axis settings of a pyplot plot. I have simply done

    pylab.plot(*self.plot_generator(low, high))

    pylab.show()

and I get this which is what I want

but I want the x axis to be at 0 instead of at the bottom. How would I do that?

Answer 1

# create some data
x = np.linspace(-np.pi,np.pi,100)
y = np.cos(2.5*x)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x,y, mfc='orange', mec='orange', marker='.')

# using 'spines', new in Matplotlib 1.0
ax.spines['left'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['right'].set_color('none')
ax.spines['bottom'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['top'].set_color('none')
ax.spines['left'].set_smart_bounds(True)
ax.spines['bottom'].set_smart_bounds(True)
ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')
ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')

ax.axhline(linewidth=2, color='blue')
ax.axvline(linewidth=2, color='blue')
show()