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

This

plt.ylim(max(plt.ylim()), min(plt.ylim()))

has an advantage over this

plt.gca().invert_yaxis()

and is that if you are in interactive mode and you repeatedly plot the same plot (maybe with updated data and having a breakpoint after the plot) the y axis won't keep inverting every time.