content: #!/usr/bin/python2.7
  # encoding: utf-8
  
  from __future__ import division
  import numpy as np
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  import matplotlib.tri as Tri
  import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
  import seaborn
  
  class PlotsTidegauge:
      """'Plots' subset of Tidegauge class gathers plotting functions"""
      def __init__(self, variable, debug=False):
          self._var = variable
  
      def plot_xy(self, x, y, title=' ', xLabel=' ', yLabel=' '):
          """
          Simple X vs Y plot
  
          Inputs:
          ------
            - x = 1D array
            - y = 1D array
          """
          fig = plt.figure(figsize=(18,10))
          plt.rc('font',size='22')
          self._fig = plt.plot(x, y, label=title)
          scale = 1
          ticks = ticker.FuncFormatter(lambda lon, pos: '{0:g}'.format(lon/scale))
          plt.ylabel(yLabel)
          plt.xlabel(xLabel)
          #plt.legend()
          plt.show()      
  
  #TR_comments: templates
  #    def whatever(self, debug=False):
  #        if debug or self._debug:
  #            print 'Start whatever...'
  #
  #        if debug or self._debug:
  #            print '...Passed'
  