Simson L. Garfinkel's Treo 700p wrote: > Yep. I would like to pass in a list of lists, where each sublist (or array) > describes a boxplot to plot.
This is now present in svn. > > Meanwhile, i've been having fun with histograms. The Y axis labels are a > pain. I think defaulting to scientific notation, as matplotlib frequently > does, is annoying... I think you are not the first who has been annoyed by this, so I added a couple of methods to the ScalarFormatter class, which is used by default for labelling ticks with linear axes. If you have a plot with linear axes and you want to turn off scientific notation on the x-axis, for example, this will do it: gca().xaxis.major.formatter.set_scientific(False) (If plotting interactively with ipython you will need to force a redraw. The draw() command is one way to do it.) If you want to use scientific notation but with a different threshold, you can do: gca().xaxis.major.formatter.set_powerlimits((-2,3)) to change the thresholds from the default, 1e-3 and 1e4, to 1e-2 and 1e3. It may make sense to have a simpler interface to this--especially simply turning scientific notation on or off on one or both axes--at the Axes class level and the pylab level, but I thought I would take it a step at a time. I am open to suggestions as to method/function name and signature. The matplotlibrc interface could even be used if people really want to be able to make no-scientific-notation their default, but I am wary of dumping more and more knobs into matplotlibrc. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
