Vineeth,
I think that you are looking for
from matplotlib.ticker import MaxNLocator
-Sterling
On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:38PM, vineeth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have attached the histogram that I generated. When specifying large numbers
> like 1000 or more, the xticks tend to overlap and it gives a clumsy
> impression. Is there a way to avoid this?. What can be done to give gaps
> between the ticks?. Say in my case just show 3 to 4 ticks in x axis rather
> than specifying all the ticks. The following is my code:
>
> def plotHistogram(veh_no, value, vehicle_no, fig_no):
>
> font = {'family' : 'serif',
> 'weight' : 'normal',
> 'size' : 10}
> rc('font', **font)
> count = 1
> legends = []
> print veh_no
> plt.figure(num=fig_no,dpi=105)
> for i in range(len(value)):
> ax = plt.subplot(2,2,i+1)
> n, bins, patches = plt.hist(value[i],100,label=veh_no[i])
> plt.ylabel('frequency',position=(0.5,0.5))
> plt.xlabel('x valuels')
> plt.grid()
> min_val = int(round(min(value[i]),0))
> max_val = int(round(max(value[i]),0))
> ax.set_xlim(min_val-2,max_val+2)
> locs,labels = plt.xticks()
> plt.xticks(locs, map(lambda x: "%g" % x, locs))
> plt.savefig('figurename.eps',dpi=70)
> count += 1
>
> Thank You
> Vineeth
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