Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-16 Thread Paul Hobson
You want to use a MultipleLocator: http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/major_minor_demo1.html -paul On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:16 PM, pb89 peterbehrin...@gmx.de wrote: hey guys, is it also possible to only show every 5th number of that array? Its a little too much right now:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-13 Thread Paul Hobson
Oh sorry that should be ... positions=np.arange(11, 36)) On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:49 AM, pb89 peterbehrin...@gmx.de wrote: it tried this before, but it throws an exception: TypeError: boxplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'pos' -- View this message in context:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-13 Thread pb89
yes, that works as well! thanks for your suggestion -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/custom-x-axis-integers-boxplot-tp45769p45776.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-13 Thread pb89
it tried this before, but it throws an exception: TypeError: boxplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'pos' -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/custom-x-axis-integers-boxplot-tp45769p45774.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-13 Thread Paul Hobson
Probably a better way would be to the the pos arguments to boxplot (bp=boxplot(array, pos=range(11, 36)). That *should* work. Let me know if it doesn't. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:36 PM, pb89 peterbehrin...@gmx.de wrote: thanks for the quick answer Jeffrey, its working! -peter -- View

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-12 Thread pb89
thanks for the quick answer Jeffrey, its working! -peter -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/custom-x-axis-integers-boxplot-tp45769p45771.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] custom x axis integers boxplot

2015-06-12 Thread Jeff Blackburne
Try adding these lines before your call to plt.show(): locs, labels = plt.xticks() plt.xticks(locs, np.arange(11, 36)) On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:10 PM, pb89 peterbehrin...@gmx.de wrote: hi guys, i guess thats an easy one for you: fig=plt.figure() rect=fig.patch