Add note regarding use of LogNorm with hist2d

bgamari · bgamari · commit 4e82fa88aed8 · 2012-08-30T18:40:57.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
@@ -8077,7 +8077,11 @@ def hist2d(self, x, y, bins = 10, range=None, normed=False, weights=None,
              All bins that has count more than cmax will not be displayed (set to none before passing to imshow)
              and these count values in the return value count histogram will also be set to nan upon return
 
-        Remaining keyword arguments are passed directly to :meth:pcolorfast
+        Remaining keyword arguments are passed directly to :meth:`pcolorfast`.
+
+        Rendering the histogram with a logarithmic color scale is
+        accomplished by passing a :class:`colors.LogNorm` instance to
+        the *norm* keyword argument.
 
         **Example:**
 
