On Jan 28, 11:08 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 1/28/11 7:20 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 9:52 am, "D. S. McNeil"<dsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jeff wrote: > >>> I would like to be able to plot a function, e.g. plot(sin), that has > >>> axes and ticks on the axes but that does not have labels for the > >>> ticks. I understand that I might be able to do this using a ticker > >>> formatter, perhaps also, by directly using matplotlib, but I do not > >>> know exactly how to go about doing this. > > >> There may be a simpler way, but: > > >> import matplotlib > > >> p = plot(sin) > >> p.show(tick_formatter=(matplotlib.ticker.NullFormatter(), > >> matplotlib.ticker.NullFormatter())) > > >> worked for me. The repetition is to make sure that both x and y tick > >> labels are turned off. > > > Yes, if you look athttp://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/plot/plot.html > > and search for tick_formatter, you will see documentation for this. > > > Do you think it would be worth having the null formatter as a > > specified option? The string "null" could easily have the default be > > the null formatter - that would be easy to add. > > I think the string 'none' might be a better fit for matplotlib > conventions, for what it's worth.
But the Python None is already reserved for the default formatter, which I suppose makes sense since 'no formatting' means 'no special formatting' to most of us... while null is special. So with 'none' versus None I see a lot of potential for confusion. Or? - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
