How to share secondary y-axis between subplots in matplotlib

Question

If you have multiple subplots containing a secondary y-axis (created using twinx), how can you share these secondary y-axis between the subplots? I want them to sca

Answer 1

You can use Axes.get_shared_y_axes() like so:

from numpy.random import rand
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('gtkagg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# create all axes we need
ax0 = plt.subplot(211)
ax1 = ax0.twinx()
ax2 = plt.subplot(212)
ax3 = ax2.twinx()

# share the secondary axes
ax1.get_shared_y_axes().join(ax1, ax3)

ax0.plot(rand(1) * rand(10),'r')
ax1.plot(10*rand(1) * rand(10),'b')
ax2.plot(3*rand(1) * rand(10),'g')
ax3.plot(10*rand(1) * rand(10),'y')
plt.show()

Here we're just joining the secondary axes together.

Hope that helps.