Data points that lie beyond the axes range are still visible when using savefig to an SVG file. I thought this was solved by #2423, but I'm still getting this as of version 1.5.1.

Consider the following snippet:

import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8.0, 5.0))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(range(10), [x**2 for x in range(10)])
ax.set_ylim(0, 50)
plt.savefig("test.svg")

This produces the following output:

The correct output should have been: