spines: be clear about meaning of location vertices

astraw · astraw · commit 11149df80473 · 2009-12-21T00:47:22.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=8045
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/spines.py b/lib/matplotlib/spines.py
@@ -297,14 +297,15 @@ def linear_spine(cls, axes, spine_type, **kwargs):
         """
         (staticmethod) Returns a linear :class:`Spine`.
         """
+        # all values of 13 get replaced upon call to set_bounds()
         if spine_type=='left':
-            path = mpath.Path([(0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0)])
+            path = mpath.Path([(0.0, 13), (0.0, 13)])
         elif spine_type=='right':
-            path = mpath.Path([(1.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0)])
+            path = mpath.Path([(1.0, 13), (1.0, 13)])
         elif spine_type=='bottom':
-            path = mpath.Path([(0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 0.0)])
+            path = mpath.Path([(13, 0.0), (13, 0.0)])
         elif spine_type=='top':
-            path = mpath.Path([(0.0, 1.0), (1.0, 1.0)])
+            path = mpath.Path([(13, 1.0), (13, 1.0)])
         else:
             raise ValueError('unable to make path for spine "%s"'%spine_type)
         result = cls(axes,spine_type,path,**kwargs)
