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Simple axes labels#
Label the axes of a plot.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
fig.subplots_adjust(top=0.8)
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(211)
ax1.set_ylabel('volts')
ax1.set_title('a sine wave')
t = np.arange(0.0, 1.0, 0.01)
s = np.sin(2 * np.pi * t)
line, = ax1.plot(t, s, lw=2)
# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)
ax2 = fig.add_axes([0.15, 0.1, 0.7, 0.3])
n, bins, patches = ax2.hist(np.random.randn(1000), 50)
ax2.set_xlabel('time (s)')
plt.show()
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