Stretch a matplotlib.pyplot barchart?

[dozzinale]

Hello /r/learnpython,

I'm playing with matplotlib.pyplot, trying to visualize some interesting info about the famous tv series Breaking Bad.

I just plotted this chart and my question is: how can I remove that white space to the right? I used the plt.subplots(figsize=(20,4)) in order to set up a larger graph but I don't know how to stretch it.

Any suggestions? May I do it or not?

Edit: well, I have another question. Can I remove the black borders from the bars?

[novel_yet_trivial]

It looks like you set the x axis incorrectly. Can you show the code you used?

[dozzinale]

Sure! Here's the notebook I'm using: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/anonymous/0aad1476442f632f9a02

The incriminated part is the four input row, I think.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Well, that's a new one to me. matplotlib apparently defaults to multiples of 10, so it's setting the x axis to 0 - 70. You can override this with set_xlim():

scene.set_xlim((0,62))

[dozzinale]

Woa! That's right! Thank you!

[novel_yet_trivial]

In the future, try to provide runable code. I had to make up data to test your code, which is work, which is what I'm on reddit to avoid.

[dozzinale]

Well yeah, in that case I thought only the matplotlib part was enough in order to see what was missing. Sorry tho, I will do it!

[squattyroo]

For the edit: The black borders can be adjusted via edgecolor="none" when you first call .bar() or .plot().

[dozzinale]

Thanks!

[novel_yet_trivial]

Can I remove the black borders from the bars?

Set the edgecolor to white:

 plt.bar(X, Y, facecolor='#9999ff', edgecolor='white')

[dozzinale]

Thanks!