title: Is there a way to make a discontinuous axis in Matplotlib?
body: <p>I'm trying to create a plot using pyplot that has a discontinuous x-axis.  The usual way this is drawn is that the axis will have something like this:</p>
  
  <p>(values)----//----(later values)</p>
  
  <p>where the // indicates that you're skipping everything between (values) and (later values).</p>
  
  <p>I haven't been able to find any examples of this, so I'm wondering if it's even possible.  I know you can join data over a discontinuity for, eg, financial data, but I'd like to make the jump in the axis more explicit.  At the moment I'm just using subplots but I'd really like to have everything end up on the same graph in the end.</p>