Again I did this padding manually by introducing yet another magic
constant. Thank you to you and Erik for your help. After using a lot
of hacks and magic constants here are the final plots:
http://www.tommycarstensen.com/matplotlib1.png
http://www.tommycarstensen.com/matplotlib2.png
Notice 1) the
Tommy,
It would be helpful if you included a more complete example that
illustrates the problem. If you are setting the text size yourself,
couldn't you adjust the padding as such "pad=20/txt_size". Then the padding
will be inversely proportional to the size of the text.
I suspect this is related
Ryan, do you know, if there is any way I can make the padding
dependent on the tick label sizes?
for label in ax2.yaxis.get_ticklabels():
label.set_horizontalalignment('right')
ax2.tick_params(pad=20)
When the numbers are large, then they are glued to the secondary
y-axis. When they are small,
Ryan, I stopped using gnuplot, because it requires the data to be
formatted in very specific ways :) I remember having functions just to
format the input data correctly for heat plots and the wrapper scripts
I wrote were quite convoluted. Matplotlib has its advantages for sure.
Otherwise I would no
Yep. I see your problem. My function and Eric's object should help here.
A sore-spot with many folks coming over to Matplotlib from "X" is the fact
that MPL does not calculate the size of text until the plot is generated.
That means it doesn't always get text positioning, etc. exactly correct.
Tha
Thanks Eric. I decided to get peace of mind and just set the tick
labels manually. I can't afford to spend several hours on all of my
plots. I appreciate your help a lot.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> On 2015/02/14 9:15 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
>>
>> Eric, it works if I
On 2015/02/14 9:15 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Eric, it works if I do:
> return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[2:]
>
> But not if I do as first suggested by you:
> return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[1:]
>
Are you using my test script but getti
You're welcome, Tommy. I used gnuplot many years ago, but I've been much
happier now that I know MPL.
A gnuplot->MPL Rosetta Stone might be a useful blog post for someone. I
haven't used gnuplot in so long that I don't think I could do this myself.
R
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Tommy Carst
Ryan, my use case is indeed that I want to avoid overlapping ticks and
I want to avoid them by not displaying them. Here is a guy with the
same problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9422587/overlapping-y-axis-tick-label-and-x-axis-tick-label-in-matplotlib
Here is the problem at the top left
Eric, it works if I do:
return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[2:]
But not if I do as first suggested by you:
return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[1:]
I don't understand this behaviour. It should be [1:]. I'll just set
the ticks manually. Seems to b
On 2015/02/14 8:45 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
Erik, that doesn't seem to work either. I tried this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator
class TrimmedMultipleLocator(MultipleLocator):
def tick_values(self, vmin, vmax):
return MultipleLoca
Tommy,
I'm sorry. I forgot to hit send all *again*. Below is my original message,
but the function I wrote is updated because it wasn't exactly correct
Ah. I was working on something to help out, so I'm just seeing Eric's very
elegant solution, which I have yet to try. However, I feel like yo
Erik, that doesn't seem to work either. I tried this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator
class TrimmedMultipleLocator(MultipleLocator):
def tick_values(self, vmin, vmax):
return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[2:]
fig = plt.fig
On 2015/02/14 7:33 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Thanks again Ryan. That's exactly what I want to achieve; i.e. remove
> the tick at 0 and only keep 5 and 10. Your solution works, but it's a
> bit of hack to use magic constants. I could however get those values
> from the xlim.
>
> Eric, I would de
Thanks again Ryan. That's exactly what I want to achieve; i.e. remove
the tick at 0 and only keep 5 and 10. Your solution works, but it's a
bit of hack to use magic constants. I could however get those values
from the xlim.
Eric, I would describe the desired tick placement algorithm as
removing th
Whoa, thanks for a great answer Ryan. I can see, why the level of
control MPL gives you is a great sales pitch. It's one of the reasons,
why I switched from gnuplot after using it for many years and making
many cool plots. The MPL learning curve has just been a bit steep,
when you are used to plot
Tommy, (Sorry for the doubleup. I just realized I forgot to hit reply-all.)
Do you want to remove the tick at 0 and only have 5,10, etc.? Could you
just do something like this instead:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_s
On 2015/02/14 5:47 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Thanks for you answer Eric. I had to get some sleep before trying out
> things. I currently have the code below, but it does not remove the
> zero value tick. It removes the tick at 5 and 10 however.
What is the effect you are trying to achieve? Ho
Tommy,
I'll try to answer your points in order:
1) Oops. That should have been "xticks".
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,3,2])
ticks, labels = plt.xticks()
plt.xticks(ticks, horizontalalignment='left')
plt.show()
2) Sorry for the ambiguity. "OO" is short for object-oriented. There a
Thanks for you answer Eric. I had to get some sleep before trying out
things. I currently have the code below, but it does not remove the
zero value tick. It removes the tick at 5 and 10 however.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 =
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for your answer. Sorry for not replying sooner. I fell asleep
shortly after sending my question.
What is "the OO way"?
Your 1st solution gives:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ticks'
I modified your 2nd solution to accommodate my wishes and needs:
import matplo
On 14-Feb-2015 02:29, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Is it possible to combine MultipleLocator and MaxNLocator? One seems
> to erase the effect of the other.
>
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