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Mount the radial axis in the polar areas of Matplotlib

I draw the azimuthal height curve in the polar region, where the height is the radial component. By default, Matplotlib displays a radial value from 0 in the center to 90 around the perimeter. I want to reverse, so 90 degrees are in the center. I tried to set limits with ax.set_ylim (90,0), but this raises a LinAlgError exception. ax is the axis object obtained from the add_axes call.

Can this be done, and if so, what should I do?

Edit: this is what I'm using right now. The main build code was taken from one of the Matplotlib examples.

# radar green, solid grid lines
rc('grid', color='#316931', linewidth=1, linestyle='-')
rc('xtick', labelsize=10)
rc('ytick', labelsize=10)

# force square figure and square axes looks better for polar, IMO
width, height = matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize']
size = min(width, height)
# make a square figure
fig = figure(figsize=(size, size))
ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8], projection='polar', axisbg='#d5de9c')

# Adjust radius so it goes 90 at the center to 0 at the perimeter (doesn't work)
#ax.set_ylim(90, 0)

# Rotate plot so 0 degrees is due north, 180 is due south

ax.set_theta_zero_location("N")

obs.date = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
az,el = azel_calc(obs, ephem.Sun())
ax.plot(az, el, color='#ee8d18', lw=3)
obs.date = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
az,el = azel_calc(obs, ephem.Moon())
ax.plot(az, el, color='#bf7033', lw=3)

ax.set_rmax(90.)
grid(True)

ax.set_title("Solar Az-El Plot", fontsize=10)
show()

The plot derived from this,

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fig = figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1, polar=True)

def mapr(r):
   """Remap the radial axis."""
   return 90 - r

r = np.arange(0, 90, 0.01)
theta = 2 * np.pi * r / 90

ax.plot(theta, mapr(r))
ax.set_yticks(range(0, 90, 10))                   # Define the yticks
ax.set_yticklabels(map(str, range(90, 0, -10)))   # Change the labels

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