Matplotlib coord. sys origin to top left

Question

How can I flip the origin of a matplotlib plot to be in the upper-left corner - as opposed to the default lower-left? I\'m using matplotlib.pylab.plot to produce the plot (

Answer 1

axis ij just makes the y-axis increase downward instead of upward, right? If so, then matplotlib.axes.invert_yaxis() might be all you need -- but I can't test that right now.

If that doesn't work, I found a mailing post suggesting that

setp(gca(), 'ylim', reversed(getp(gca(), 'ylim')))

might do what you want to resemble axis ij.