How to set xlim and ylim for a subplot in matplotlib [duplicate]
You should use the OO interface to matplotlib, rather than the state machine interface. Almost all of the plt.* function are thin wrappers that basically do gca().*.
plt.subplot returns an axes object. Once you have a reference to the axes object you can plot directly to it, change its limits, etc.
import matplotlib.pyplot as pltax1 = plt.subplot(131)ax1.scatter([1, 2], [3, 4])ax1.set_xlim([0, 5])ax1.set_ylim([0, 5])ax2 = plt.subplot(132)ax2.scatter([1, 2],[3, 4])ax2.set_xlim([0, 5])ax2.set_ylim([0, 5])and so on for as many axes as you want.
or better, wrap it all up in a loop:
import matplotlib.pyplot as pltDATA_x = ([1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4])DATA_y = DATA_x[::-1]XLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3YLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3for j, (x, y, xlim, ylim) in enumerate(zip(DATA_x, DATA_y, XLIMS, YLIMS)): ax = plt.subplot(1, 3, j + 1) ax.scatter(x, y) ax.set_xlim(xlim) ax.set_ylim(ylim)