Pyplot - Shift Position Of Y-axis Ticks And Its Data

Using pyplot, how do I modify my plot to change the vertical position of my yticks? E.g. in my plot above, I want to move 'Promoter' down and 'CDS' up (along with their 'lines' in

Solution 1:

By default matplotlib produces some 5% margins on each side of the data. Here it seems you want to increase this margin for the vertical direction. Maybe you want 40%, i.e. plt.margins(y=0.4)?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x_CDS = list(range(661, 668))
y_CDS = ["CDS"] * len(x_CDS)

x_RBS = list(range(649, 656))
y_RBS = ["RBS"] * len(x_RBS)

x_prom = list(range(570, 601))
y_prom = ["Promoter"] * len(x_prom)

plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))

plt.xlabel('Nucleotide position')

plt.plot(x_CDS, y_CDS, label='CDS')
plt.plot(x_RBS, y_RBS, label='RBS')
plt.plot(x_prom, y_prom, label='Promoter')

plt.margins(y=0.4)

plt.show()

The advantage of using margins here instead of changing the ylim is that you do not need to count the categories to find out what useful value to choose for the limits. But of course you may equally change the limits via plt.ylim(-0.8,2.8) toc achieve the same plot.

Solution 2:

plt.margins(y=10) should provide a padding on the top and bottom of the y-axis ticks. I am using y=10 as an example, please tweak it as necessary. Hope, this is what you were looking for.