Axis positions other than the edges?

Question

Graphs in Bokeh have the axes along the edges. I can control which edge by adding

x_axis_location="above"|"below",
y_axis_location="left"|"right" 

to my call to bokeh.plotting.figure(). But what if I want the x axis to be along the line y=0, and the y axis to be at x=0? That seems like it should be the default (because that's how mathematicians always do it), but I can't see any way in which it is even possible.

Answer 1

It is possible to set an fixed position to your axes. In your case you want to set fixed_location = 0 for both, the x.axis (which is below) and the y-axis (which is left).

Minimal Example

from bokeh.plotting import show, figure, output_notebook
output_notebook()
p = figure(width=300,
           height=300,
           x_range=(-11,11),
           y_range=(-11,11),
          )
p.below[0].fixed_location = 0
p.left[0].fixed_location = 0
show(p)

Output