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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"imshow with log/symlog scales fails to produce figures without raising an Exception","articleBody":"I don't know if it makes sense to use imshow with non-linear scales. However, it would be nice if imshow at least raised an Exception in the cases where it's supposed to fail.\n\nmatplotlib v 1.4.2\n\n``` python\n%pylab inline\n\nZ = randn(10000).reshape(100, -1)\n\n# Works\nfigure()\nimshow(Z)\n\n# Produces no figure if x/y limits are not specified\n# Does NOT raise an exception!\nfigure()\nimshow(Z)\nxscale('log')\nyscale('log')\n\n# Works\nfigure()\nimshow(Z)\nxscale('log')\nyscale('log')\nxlim(1, 20)\nylim(1, 20)\n\n# Produces no figure in symlog scale\n# Does NOT raise an exception!\nfigure()\nimshow(Z)\nxscale('symlog')\nyscale('symlog')\n\n# Produces no figure in symlog scale\n# Does NOT raise an exception!\nfigure()\nimshow(Z)\nxscale('symlog', linthreshx=10**-3)\nyscale('symlog', linthreshy=10**-3)\nxlim(0, 20)\nylim(0, 20)\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/eyurtsev","@type":"Person","name":"eyurtsev"},"datePublished":"2014-12-17T21:03:25.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/3931/matplotlib/issues/3931"}