On Wed, 23 May 2007, Trevis Crane wrote:
> 2) How do I format how tick mark labels are displayed? I have a plot
> whose x-axis runs from 0 to 8.5e-5. But the tick mark labels are
> 0,0.00001,0.00002,0.00003... This is rather unsightly, but I haven't
> found a way to specify the format of these numbers.
Look into the arguments of the xticks function. I do things like
tickvals = arange(5.998,6.0025,0.0005);
ticklabs = map(lambda val:"%.4f"%val, tickvals);
ticklabs[0::2] = map(lambda val:"%.3f"%val, tickvals[0::2]);
xticks(tickvals,ticklabs);
to customize.
JTW
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