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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Ylim with Bar Chart","articleBody":"I think the bar chart's ylim does not behave as expected. \r\nBased on the demo presented [here ](https://matplotlib.org/2.0.2/examples/api/barchart_demo.html), I have added plt.ylim(top=30) and bars extended outside. \r\n\r\nExpected behaviour is that bars will be cut-off at the top of the figure.\r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/40423004/106587425-a8e56500-655a-11eb-98b1-c505bddcc5d6.png)\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/40423004/106587443-adaa1900-655a-11eb-9120-263b3bb1d88d.png)\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport numpy as np\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n\r\nN = 5\r\nmen_means = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)\r\nmen_std = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)\r\n\r\nind = np.arange(N)  # the x locations for the groups\r\nwidth = 0.35       # the width of the bars\r\n\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\nrects1 = ax.bar(ind, men_means, width, color='r', yerr=men_std)\r\n\r\nwomen_means = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)\r\nwomen_std = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)\r\nrects2 = ax.bar(ind + width, women_means, width, color='y', yerr=women_std)\r\n\r\nax.set_ylabel('Scores')\r\nax.set_title('Scores by group and gender')\r\nax.set_xticks(ind + width / 2)\r\nax.set_xticklabels(('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'))\r\n\r\nplt.ylim(top=30) # THIS IS THE PART I HAVE ADDED\r\n\r\nax.legend((rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('Men', 'Women'))\r\n\r\n\r\ndef autolabel(rects):\r\n    for rect in rects:\r\n        height = rect.get_height()\r\n        ax.text(rect.get_x() + rect.get_width()/2., 1.05*height,\r\n                '%d' % int(height),\r\n                ha='center', va='bottom')\r\n\r\nautolabel(rects1)\r\nautolabel(rects2)\r\n\r\nplt.show()\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/berkdemir","@type":"Person","name":"berkdemir"},"datePublished":"2021-02-02T10:29:49.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/19428/matplotlib/issues/19428"}