Matplotlib axes label

[attn.steven.kuo at gmail.com]

On Mar 2, 7:02 am, "John Henry" <john106he... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 10:07 pm, "John Henry" <john106he... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 1, 9:53 pm, attn.steven.... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > You can try adjusting the labels and ticks
> > > using matplotlib.ticker.
>
> > > To the example you cited, one can add
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> > > from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator, FormatStrFormatter
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> > > # ...
>
> > > minorLocator = MultipleLocator(0.1)
> > > minorFormattor = FormatStrFormatter('%0.1f')
> > > ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(minorLocator)
> > > ax.yaxis.set_minor_formatter(minorFormattor)
>
> > > show()
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> > Thank you for the response.  Yes, adding those lines did work.
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> > But what exactly is going on here?  Why would adding these two lines
> > works?
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> > Thanks,
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> Okay, I played with the ticker formater and locator routines.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't help.  The locator sets the major value and
> the formatter determines how the axes label is formatted.  It doesn't
> gurantee that the first label starts at the origin.  Half of my plots
> works, and half of them doesn't.





As default, matplotlib places labels and tick marks
at major ticks.  Minor ticks are invisible as
a default.

The lines that I added turned on *minor*
ticks and their labels; I set them to appear
at integer multiples of 0.1 and I
formatted them as floating point numbers.

There's nothing to prevent you from
having minor ticks appear at intervals
that exceed those of major ticks.  E.g.,

minorLocator = MultipleLocator(1.1)

# etc.

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Hope this helps,
Steven