title: discontinous axis in subplot - python matplotlib
body: <p>I would like to have plot with an y axis that is devided into two parts. The lower part should have a normal scale while the upper one should scale with a factor of 10.</p>
  
  <p>I already found some examples on how to make plots with broken x or y axes, for example:
  <a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/broken_axis.html" rel="nofollow">http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/broken_axis.html</a></p>
  
  <p>But I do not understand how to achieve this, when I want to apply this to one single subplot inside a 2x2 grid of plots. If it is important, I set up the plots like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fig = plt.figure()
  fig.set_size_inches(8, 6)
  
  fig.add_subplot(221)
  [...]
  fig.add_subplot(222)
  [...]
  </code></pre>