combining a log and linear scale in matplotlib

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From the response of user1318806 to cphlewis:

Thank you. Actually I wanted a combination of log+linear on the x axis not y. But I assume your code should be easily adaptable.

Hello! If you wanted a combination of log+linear on the x-axis (patterned from the code of Duncan Watts and CubeJockey):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
import numpy as np

# Numbers from -50 to 50, with 0.1 as step
xdomain = np.arange(-50,50, 0.1)

axMain = plt.subplot(111)
axMain.plot(np.sin(xdomain), xdomain)
axMain.set_xscale('linear')
axMain.set_xlim((0.5, 1.5))
axMain.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
axMain.yaxis.set_ticks_position('right')
axMain.yaxis.set_visible(False)


divider = make_axes_locatable(axMain)
axLin = divider.append_axes("left", size=2.0, pad=0, sharey=axMain)
axLin.set_xscale('log')
axLin.set_xlim((0.01, 0.5))
axLin.plot(np.sin(xdomain), xdomain)
axLin.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
axLin.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
plt.setp(axLin.get_xticklabels(), visible=True)

plt.title('Linear right, log left')

The code above yields: Answer1

(MISCELLANEOUS) Here’s a very minor fix for the title and the absence of tick marks on the right side:

# Fix for: title + no tick marks on the right side of the plot
ax2 = axLin.twinx()
ax2.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
ax2.tick_params(axis="y",which="both",labelright="off")

Adding these lines will give you this: Answer2

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