def create_top_stacked_axes(self,heights=(1.)):
"""
Create several axes for subplot on top of each other
Args:
heights (iterable): relative height e.g.
heights = [.2,.1,.6] will give axes using this amount of
space
"""
assert sum(heights) <= 1., "heights must be in relative heights"
cfg = get_config_item("canvas")
left = cfg["leftpadding"]
right = cfg["rightpadding"]
bot = cfg["bottompadding"]
top = cfg["toppadding"]
width = 1. - left - right
height = 1. - top - bot
heights = [height*h for h in heights]
heights.reverse()
Logger.debug("Using heights {0}".format(heights.__repr__()))
abs_bot = 0 +bot
axes = [p.axes([left,abs_bot,width,heights[0]])]
restheights = heights[1:]
abs_bot = bot + heights[0]
for h in restheights:
theaxes = p.axes([left,abs_bot,width,h])
p.setp(theaxes.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)
axes.append(theaxes)
abs_bot += h
self.axes = axes
def save(self,path,name,endings=("pdf","png"),**kwargs):
"""
Calls pylab.savefig for all endings
Args:
path (str): path to savefile
name (str): filename to save
endings (tuple): for each name in endings, a file is save
Keyword Args:
all keyword args will be passed to pylab.savefig
Returns:
str: The full path to the the saved file
"""
if not kwargs:
kwargs = get_config_item("savefig")
self.savekwargs = kwargs
self.savekwargs.update({'path' : path,'name' : name, 'endings' : endings})
for ending in endings:
filename = os.path.join(path,name + '.' + ending)
self.figure.savefig(filename,format=ending,**kwargs)
if ending == "png":
self.png_filename = filename
return self.png_filename
