I sent this to the -users list a little over a week ago - now
resending to -devel list against the latest svn.
best,
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Paul Ivanov, on 2010-12-23 09:47, wrote:
> Václav Šmilauer, on 2010-12-23 14:51, wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > when I use twinx() to have y1 and y2 axes and set ticklabel_format
> > style to 'sci' on the y2 axis, ticks on the y2 are properly numbered,
> > but the "1e-5" that is supposed to be atop y2 appears on the top of
> > y1 instead. When both y1 and y2 use the exponents, they overwrite
> > each other -- a minimal example (result attached in pdf):
> >
> > import pylab
> >
> > pylab.plot([0,1e-2,2e-2,3e-2],[1e3,5e3,6.1e3,1e3],'g-')
> >
> > pylab.ticklabel_format(style='sci',scilimits=(0,0),axis='both') # this is not necessary to show the bug
> >
> > pylab.twinx()
> >
> > pylab.plot([1e-2,2e-2,3e-2,4e-2],[2e-5,3e-5,0,-1e-5],'r-')
> >
> > pylab.ticklabel_format(style='sci',scilimits=(0,0),axis='both') # makes 1e-5 appear on the left instead of on the right
> >
> > pylab.show()
> >
> Hi Václav,
>
> thanks for the bug report. As a temporary workaround - use
>
> plt.gca().yaxis.set_offset_position('right')
>
> Committers: the patch attached fixes this problem. I thought that
> there might be a similar problem for twiny() - but ax.xaxis does
> not appear to have .set_offset_position() method.
>
> > I've had this issue with versions .99, 1.0.0, running on Linux
> > (Ubuntu, versions 9.04 through to 10.10).
>
> me too, and I kept forgetting to report it.
>
> > PS. what's wrong with the sf.net bugzilla? I was not able to post the
> > issue there --
>
> this I do not know.
>
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