Re: [Matplotlib-users] tick labeling question

Darren Dale wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:59, Alexander Michael wrote:
>> On 8/3/06, Steve Schmerler <el...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> How can I change the default behavior of the tick labeling from say
>>>
>>> 1  2   3   4  x1e-5
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> 1e-5  2e-5  3e-5  4e-5 ?
>>>
>>> My thesis supervisor wants it that way :(
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> steve
>> There is problably a better way, but onne way is to set  the label
>> formatter yourself:
>>
>> import pylab
>> import matplotlib
>>
>> pylab.plot([1.0E-5,2.5E-5,3.0E-5], [1.0, 3.0, 2.0])
>>
>> ax = pylab.gca()
>> ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(
>>     matplotlib.ticker.FormatStrFormatter('%g'))
> 
> Use OldScalarFormatter instead.
> 

OK, I'll try that one too ...

Thanks.


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