Issue with drawparallels argument in Basemap - python-3.x

Question

This seems like it should be an easy fix but I can't get it to work. I would like 40°N to display in the attached plot, but setting the labels argument in drawparallels to [1,0,1,1] isn't doing the trick. That should plot the parallels lables where they intersect the left, top and bottom of the plot according to the documentation. I would also like for 0° to once again show up in the bottom right corner. Any idea of how I can fix those 2 issues?
from netCDF4 import Dataset as NetCDFFile
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import addcyclic
nc = NetCDFFile('C:/myfile.nc')
lat = nc.variables['lat'][:]
lon = nc.variables['lon'][:]
time = nc.variables['time'][:]
olr = nc.variables['olr'][:]
olr,lon = addcyclic(olr,lon)
map = Basemap(llcrnrlon=0.,llcrnrlat=-40.,urcrnrlon=360.,urcrnrlat=40.,resolution='l')
lons,lats = np.meshgrid(lon,lat)
x,y = map(lons,lats)
levels = np.arange(-19.5,20.0,0.5)
levels = levels[levels!=0]
ticks = np.arange(-20.0,20.0,4.0)
cs = map.contourf(x,y,olr[0],levels, cmap='bwr')
cbar = plt.colorbar(cs, orientation='horizontal', cmap='bwr', spacing='proportional', ticks=ticks)
cbar.set_label('Outgoing Longwave Radiation Anomalies $\mathregular{(W/m^2)}$')
map.drawcoastlines()
map.drawparallels(np.arange(-40,40,20),labels=[1,0,1,1], linewidth=0.5, fontsize=7)
map.drawmeridians(np.arange(0,360,40),labels=[1,1,0,1], linewidth=0.5, fontsize=7)

Answer 1

The first part of the question is easy. In order for the label to show up, you have to actually draw the parallel, but np.arange(-40,40,20) does not include 40. So, if you change that statement to np.arange(-40,41,20) your 40N label will show up.
The second part should in principle be solvable in the same way, but Basemap apparently uses the modulo of the longitudes to compute the position of the labels, so just using np.arange(0,361,40) when drawing the meridians will result in two 0 labels on top of each other. However, we can capture the labels that drawmeridians generates and manually change the position of the second 0 label. The labels are stored in a dictionary, so they are easy to deal with. To compute the x position of the last label, I compute the difference in x-position between the first and the second label, multiply that with the amount of meridians to be drawn (360/40) and add the x-position of the first label.
Here the complete example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
map = Basemap(llcrnrlon=0.,llcrnrlat=-40.,urcrnrlon=360.,urcrnrlat=40.,resolution='l')
map.drawcoastlines()
yticks = map.drawparallels(
np.arange(-40,41,20),labels=[1,0,1,1], linewidth=0.5, fontsize=7
)
xticks = map.drawmeridians(
np.arange(0,361,40),labels=[1,1,0,1], linewidth=0.5, fontsize=7
)
first_pos = xticks[0][1][0].get_position()
second_pos = xticks[40][1][0].get_position()
last_x = first_pos[0]+(second_pos[0]-first_pos[0])*360/40
xticks[360][1][0].set_position((last_x,first_pos[1]))
plt.show()
Here the resulting plot:
Hope this helps.