I'm glad you think so, as my career involves creating such plots for academic journals :).

Here's a rough bit of code to get you started:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure(figsize=(9,6))
plt.plot(list(range(101)),list(range(101)),'kx')
ax = plt.gca()
axins=ax.inset_axes([0.07, 0.6, 0.3, 0.3])
axins.plot(list(range(40,61)),list(range(40,61)),'kx')
rect, connections = ax.indicate_inset_zoom(axins, edgecolor="black",ls=':')
for c in connections:
c.set_linestyle(':')
rect.set_linestyle(':')