There isn't a really good way to do this at present. Maybe someone can suggest a workaround that doesn't require modifying matplotlib.
However, I was able to produce a patch that will respect the user's current locale here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/410 Cheers, Mike On 07/28/2011 06:46 PM, José Alexandre Nalon wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this question was answered before. I did a search in the > mailing list archives but couldn't find any answer. > > Is there an easy way to use comma as a decimal separator in texts, > especially in tick labels? I know that it is possible to user > formatters to do that, but I was wondering if there is an automatic > setting or something that could be applied to axes instances, as I > have more than 200 scripts to generate plots and I don't want to > edit every one of them. Maybe there is a TeX setting (I uset > usetex=True)? > > I tried setting locales, but it didn't work. I also tried to > process the texts in the tick labels, but that didn't work also. > Maybe I am overseeing something, but any hint would help. > > Thanks in advance: > > --- > José Alexandre Nalon > na...@terra.com.br > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. > Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. > Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users