Hi Ben,
Would you expect this to work on Matplotlib 0.99.3?
I get the following error
AttributeError: 'XAxis' object has no attribute 'set_tick_params'
Thanks,
Andre
On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Ben Breslauer wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
> You should be able to set the size with the following:
>
> params = {'length': 10}
> axis = plt.axes().xaxis
> axis.set_tick_params(which='major', **params)
>
> You can also use 'minor' instead of 'major' to set the minor ticks. There
> are a number of different valid values for the params dict, including
> direction, width, and color.
>
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud <walksl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to modify tick sizes and labels. Reading documents and examples,
> I have found an easy way to modify the labels,
>
> > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> >
> > ax = plt.axes()
> > font_size = 24
> >
> > plt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(),fontsize=font_size)
>
>
> but I am struggling to find such a nice solution for the tick size. I would
> like to change the size of the major and minor ticks independently. But the
> best I have come up with so far is a brute force double loop (I tried calling
> "major=False" but "major" is not a recognized kwarg)
>
> > for tick in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines(minor=True):
> > tick.set_markersize(5)
> > for tick in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines(minor=False):
> > tick.set_markersize(10)
>
>
> I assume there is some nice solution like for the tick labels, but I have not
> found it.
>
> Anyone figured this one out yet?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andre
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