How to zoomed a portion of image and insert in the same plot in matplotlib

Question

I would like to zoom a portion of data/image and plot it inside the same figure. It looks something like this figure.

Answer 1

The basic steps to zoom up a portion of a figure with matplotlib

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

# Generate the main data
X = np.linspace(-6, 6, 1024)
Y = np.sinc(X)

# Generate data for the zoomed portion
X_detail = np.linspace(-3, 3, 1024)
Y_detail = np.sinc(X_detail)

# plot the main figure
plt.plot(X, Y, c = 'k')  

 # location for the zoomed portion 
sub_axes = plt.axes([.6, .6, .25, .25]) 

# plot the zoomed portion
sub_axes.plot(X_detail, Y_detail, c = 'k') 

# insert the zoomed figure
# plt.setp(sub_axes)

plt.show()