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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Adjust autoscale behavior for ax.axline","articleBody":"From https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/15330#discussion_r367503354\r\n\r\n\r\nI've come across two use-cases where this scaling behavior is undesirable:\r\n* I'm plotting a line with a single special point (eg, a ray, and I'm ok with the backwards portion of the line). If I plot `(origin, origin + direction)`, then my axis bounds scale to meet `origin + direction`, even though that point is arbitrary. I can work around that with a hack like `(origin, origin + eps*direction)`, but it forces me to trade off axis scaling against precision.\r\n\r\n* I'm plotting a true infinite line, with no special points. Perhaps ideally I'd get axis scaling that shows the \"nearest\" part of the line, but I'd be ok with just passing `autoscale=False` to `axline` to have it skip this step.\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @eric-wieser in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/15330_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/eric-wieser","@type":"Person","name":"eric-wieser"},"datePublished":"2020-01-19T13:10:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/16264/matplotlib/issues/16264"}