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Drawing the axis line in Matplotlib
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To draw the axis line in Matplotlib, use the axhline(~) and axvline(~) methods:
plt.axhline(0) #x-axis lineplt.axvline(0) #y-axis lineplt.xlim(-5,5)plt.ylim(-5,5)plt.show()
The output is as follows:
Changing transparency
Usually, you want the axis lines to be slightly transparent, so here's some code for that:
plt.axhline(0, color="blue", alpha=0.3)plt.axvline(0, color="blue", alpha=0.3)plt.xlim(-5,5)plt.ylim(-5,5)plt.show()
The output is as follows:
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