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Title: Raise error if argument to xlim is invalid, e.g., nan · Issue #7460 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

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X Title: Raise error if argument to xlim is invalid, e.g., nan · Issue #7460 · matplotlib/matplotlib

Description: As of 2.0b4, passing nan as a limit to xlim seems to reset both limits to (-0.001, 0.001) (try e.g. with plt.plot([0, 1]); plt.xlim(right=np.nan)). I think this should either error, or, more usefully, be interpreted as None (i.e. leave t...

Open Graph Description: As of 2.0b4, passing nan as a limit to xlim seems to reset both limits to (-0.001, 0.001) (try e.g. with plt.plot([0, 1]); plt.xlim(right=np.nan)). I think this should either error, or, more useful...

X Description: As of 2.0b4, passing nan as a limit to xlim seems to reset both limits to (-0.001, 0.001) (try e.g. with plt.plot([0, 1]); plt.xlim(right=np.nan)). I think this should either error, or, more useful...

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