How do I let my matplotlib plot go beyond the axes?

Question

I have to translate an image plotting script from matlab to matplotlib/pylab, and I\'m trying to achieve the same effect as the matlab image below:

Answer 1

To get the marker to show beyond the axes you can turn the clipping off. This can be done using the keyword argument in the plot command clip_on=False.

For example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(range(5), range(5), 'ro', markersize=20, clip_on=False, zorder=100)
plt.show()