On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Oz Nahum <nahu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I don't like the default scientific formatting in matplotlib, IMHO the > format of having a zero after the exponent is a waste of space in my opinion > ... > What I mean is that mpl is writing zero as: > 0.0e+00 or 1.2e-03. IMHO it would suffice just to do 0.0 and 1.2e-3, which > take less space and looks better (again, imho).
<SNIP> > > As can be seen, the text string is empty before calling show, which is > forcing me to show the image . Is there a way to access these labales with > out calling show() ? What you want is to set a custom formatter: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/ticker_api.html import matplotlib.pyplot as plt f = plt.figure() ax = f.add_subplot(111) ax.plot([1,2,3,4,5]) # Formats ticks on the xaxis with the %.2g format string ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(plt.FormatStrFormatter('%.2g')) plt.show() If you can't get what you want using a format string, you can write a function that does what you want can create a formatter from that using FuncFormatter. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
