Does "xticks" not do what you want? Maybe I am misundertsanding because you are trying to do something with a raw Artist...
http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=xticks#matplotlib.pyplot.xticks Cheers, Jody On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:31 AM, patricia <ptramba...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am working on a plot that requires AxisArtist and I cannot set the tick > separation (or nbins) that I want to avoid overlapping of ticklabels. I read > http://www.ce.mu.edu.tr/sharedoc/python-matplotlib-doc-1.0.1/html/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/axisartist.html#gridhelper, > > where they suggest to use the classical set_ticks, but it doesn't work. > ax.xaxis.set_ticks() does not makes any difference, the ticks are same as > originally, and > ax.axis["left"].set_ticks() results in an error: 'AxisArtist' object has > no attribute 'set_ticks' > Can somebody help me? > Thanks in advance, > Patricia > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/I-cannot-change-the-axis-tick-separation-or-nbins-in-Axis-artist-tp40446.html > Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Jody Klymak http://web.uvic.ca/~jklymak/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users