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Sharing axis limits and views
=============================

It's common to make two or more plots which share an axis, e.g., two
subplots with time as a common axis.  When you pan and zoom around on
one, you want the other to move around with you.  To facilitate this,
matplotlib Axes support a ``sharex`` and ``sharey`` attribute.  When
you create a :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplot` or
:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.axes` instance, you can pass in a keyword
indicating what axes you want to share with




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.. code-block:: python


    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    t = np.arange(0, 10, 0.01)

    ax1 = plt.subplot(211)

    ax1.plot(t, np.sin(2*np.pi*t))

    ax2 = plt.subplot(212, sharex=ax1)

    ax2.plot(t, np.sin(4*np.pi*t))

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.048 seconds)



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