Re: [Matplotlib-users] Formatting numbers with exponent with matplotlib

2010-05-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Ralph Kube wrote: > Hello folks. > I am trying to teach pylab to use latex to write numbers with an > exponent in the plot legend. > So far my plot labels are formatted with scientific notation, where > I use the format operate: > > import pylab > ra_list,b = data

[Matplotlib-users] Formatting numbers with exponent with matplotlib

2010-05-17 Thread Ralph Kube
Hello folks. I am trying to teach pylab to use latex to write numbers with an exponent in the plot legend. So far my plot labels are formatted with scientific notation, where I use the format operate: import pylab ra_list,b = data pylab.plot(ra_list,b, label='Ra = ' + "{0:4.2e}".format(ra_list[i])