Brad, Matplotlib axes objects have set_xticklabels methods. It's brute force, but this will work: ax = gca() ax.set_xticks([0., 0.015, 0.03]) ax.set_xticklabels(['0', '0.015', '0.03'])
Hope that helps, -paul On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Brad Malone <brad.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a plot in which I need to modify the value of the xticks. A > snippet of my code is attached below: > >> fig=figure() >> >> gs=matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpec(1,2,width_ratios=[3,1]) >> gs.update(wspace=0.1) >> ax=subplot(gs[0]) >> ylabel('Frequency (cm'+r'$^{-1}$'+')') >> for i in range(0,len(ydata)): >> plot(xdata[i],ydata[i],'r-',linewidth=1.5) >> plot(xdata[0],[0.0]*len(xdata[0]),'k:') >> >> pos=[0,49.9856985699,99.9713971397,170.661849982,212.979781775,283.67023461\ >> 7,333.655933187,375.97386498] >> >> locs,labels=xticks(pos,[r'$\Gamma$','X','M',r'$\Gamma$','Z','A','R','X']) >> for i in range(0,len(pos)): >> plt.axvline(x=pos[i],linewidth=0.5,color='k',alpha=0.5) >> axis([0,375.98,0,300]) >> ax2=subplot(gs[1]) >> plot(dosydata,dosxdata,'r-',linewidth=1.5) >> a=gca() >> b=a.get_xticks() >> print b >> a.xaxis.set_ticks([0.0, 0.015, 0.03]) >> a.tick_params(axis='x',labelsize=14) >> a.set_xlim([0,0.03]) >> a.set_ylim([0,300]) >> ax.label_outer() >> ax2.label_outer() >> show() > > > It's a plot with two subplots. Anyway, the issue I'm running into concerns > the x-axis on the second subplot. As you can see I have set it explicitly > with "a.xaxis.set_ticks([0.0, 0.015, 0.03])". However, when I do this it > shows up as (0.000, 0.015,0.030) which I would really like it to look like > (0,0.015,0.03). In other words, I don't want extra zeros because they are > unnecessary and make the text run into my other subplot. So I need to be > able to format them somehow. How would I achieve this selective formatting > (because of course I want 0.015 to show up that way and not 0.01). > > Thanks so much in advance for the help! > > Best, > Brad > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users