staircase.Stairs.negate

Stairs.negate()

An operator which produces a new Stairs instance representing the multiplication of the step function by -1.

Equivalent to -self. See examples below.

Returns:new instance representing the result of -self
Return type:Stairs

Examples

>>> stair_list = [s1, -s1]
>>> fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(17,5), sharey=True, sharex=True)
>>> for ax, title, stair_instance in zip(axes, (['s1', '-s1']), stair_list):
...     stair_instance.plot(ax)
...     ax.set_title(title)
../_images/staircase-Stairs-negate-1.png