Matplotlib/pyplot: How to enforce axis range?

Question

I would like to draw a standard 2D line graph with pylot, but force the axes\' values to be between 0 and 600 on the x, and 10k and 20k on the y. Let me go with an example.

Answer 1

I tried all of those above answers, and I then summarized a pipeline of how to draw the fixed-axes image. It applied both to show function and savefig function.

1. before you plot:

   fig = pylab.figure()
   ax = fig.gca()
   ax.set_autoscale_on(False)
   

This is to request an ax which is subplot(1,1,1).

2. During the plot:

   ax.plot('You plot argument') # Put inside your argument, like ax.plot(x,y,label='test')
   ax.axis('The list of range') # Put in side your range [xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax], like ax.axis([-5,5,-5,200])
   

3. After the plot:

   1. To show the image :

      fig.show()
      

   2. To save the figure :

      fig.savefig('the name of your figure')
      

I find out that put axis at the front of the code won't work even though I have set autoscale_on to False.

I used this code to create a series of animation. And below is the example of combing multiple fixed axes images into an animation.