I want to plot multiple histograms on the same plot and I need to compare the spread of the data. I want to do this by dividing each histogram by its maximum value so all the distributions have the same scale. However, the way matplotlib's histogram function works, I have not found an easy way to do this.
This is because n in
n, bins, patches = ax1.hist(y, bins = 20, histtype = 'step', color = 'k')
Is the number …