How do you want your ticklabels formatted? If axisartist does not provide a formatter that fits your need, you can create a custom formatter. Formatter for axisartist can be any callable object with following signature.
def Formatter(direction, factor, values): # ... return list_of_string_that corresponds_to_values You may ignore direction and factor parameters for now. For example, class MyFormatter(object): def __call__(self, direction, factor, values): _fmt = "$%.1f$" return [_fmt % v for v in values] then you could do grid_helper = floating_axes.GridHelperCurveLinear( tr, extremes=( 1, 2, 1000, 2000 ), tick_formatter1 = None, tick_formatter2 = MyFormatter() ) Regards, -JJ On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Stefan Mauerberger <stefan.mauerber...@mnet-online.de> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a question regarding the formatting of ticks in a curved > coordinate system. To create my plots I am useing the > mpl_toolkits.axisartist.floating_axes.GridHelperCurveLinear() function. > This works quite well but I have difficulties with formatting the axis. > I am working in a polar coordinate system. To format the longitudinal > axis I found the function > mpl_toolkits.axisartist.angle_helper.FormatterDMS() and it works good. > But I want to chance the formatting of the radius too. For this I need > to pass something to the kwargs tick_formatter2 of the function > GridHelperCurveLinear but I do not know what. > > Could you give me some advice? > > Regards > > Stefan > > Here is the code I use: > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import mpl_toolkits.axisartist.floating_axes as floating_axes > from matplotlib.projections import PolarAxes > > fig = plt.figure() > > tr = PolarAxes.PolarTransform() > > grid_helper = floating_axes.GridHelperCurveLinear( tr, extremes=( 1, 2, > 1000, 2000 ), tick_formatter1 = None, tick_formatter2 = None ) > > ax1 = floating_axes.FloatingSubplot( fig, 111, grid_helper=grid_helper ) > > fig.add_subplot( ax1 ) > > ax1.grid( True ) > > plt.show() > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper > David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a > Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your > business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users