from PyQt4.

QtGui import QSizePolicy

from PyQt4.QtCore import QSize
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as Canvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib import rcParams
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

rcParams['font.size'] = 9

class MatplotlibWidget(Canvas):

def __init__(self, parent=None, title='', xlabel='', ylabel='',

xlim=None, ylim=None, xscale='linear', yscale='linear',
width=4, height=3, dpi=100, hold=False):
self.figure = Figure(figsize=(width, height), dpi=dpi)
self.axes = self.figure.add_subplot(111)
self.axes.set_title(title)
self.axes.set_xlabel(xlabel)
self.axes.set_ylabel(ylabel)
self.axes.grid(True)

if xscale is not None:

self.axes.set_xscale(xscale)
if yscale is not None:
self.axes.set_yscale(yscale)
if xlim is not None:
self.axes.set_xlim(*xlim)
if ylim is not None:
self.axes.set_ylim(*ylim)
#self.axes.hold(hold)

Canvas.__init__(self, self.figure)
self.setParent(parent)

Canvas.setSizePolicy(self, QSizePolicy.Expanding, QSizePolicy.Expanding)

Canvas.updateGeometry(self)

#===============================================================================
# Example
#===============================================================================
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow, QApplication
from numpy import linspace

class ApplicationWindow(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
QMainWindow.__init__(self)
self.mplwidget = MatplotlibWidget(self, title='Example', xlabel='Linear
scale', ylabel='Log scale',hold=True, yscale='log')
self.mplwidget.setFocus()
self.setCentralWidget(self.mplwidget)
self.plot(self.mplwidget.axes)

def plot(self, axes):

 x = linspace(-10, 10)
axes.plot(x, x**2)
axes.plot(x, x**3)

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
win = ApplicationWindow()
win.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())