Thanks!
This got it working. Also thanks to the other for explaining why python does
it. I understand the reason, but I think its weird to have that as the
default setting.
efiring wrote:
>
> On 09/11/2010 11:12 AM, freeeeeekk wrote:
>>
>> Im trying to do a very simple x vs y plot. Where the x values range
>> between
>> 3247 and 3256 and y between 0 and 1. This data is stored in data.dat. I
>> plot
>> it using the code below, the resulting plot is shown in the first of the
>> two
>> plots below. Everything goes well except for the x axis, for some reason
>> tickmarks from 0 up to 9 appear. At the far end of the axis my xmin is
>> printed: 3.247e3.
>> I started looking for the cause and it turns out that as long as my range
>> in
>> x is lower than 10, this happens. If I change the xlimits to
>> xlim(3246,3256)
>> I get the plot at the bottom of this page, everything is fine. But if I
>> change this to for instance xlim(3246.01,3256) or xlim(3245, 3254.99) I
>> get
>> the same behaviour as in the first graph.
>>
>> Does any one have any experience with this/ know the reason for this
>> happening? Thanks!
>>
>> from numpy import *
>> from pylab import *
>>
>> datafile = mlab.load('./data.dat')
>> xx=datafile[:,0]
>> yy=datafile[:,1]
>>
>> plot(xx,yy,'black')
>> xlim(3247,3256)
>> ylim(0,1.2)
>
> with older mpl, try this:
>
> gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter(useOffset=False))
>
> with 1.0 or later try the following instead:
>
> ticklabel_format(useOffset=False)
>
> Eric
>
>>
>> show()
>>
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p29687404/wrong.png
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p29687404/right.png
>
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