Hmm, no, it looks like the tick_params were added in 1.0. I can also get it
to work using
plt.setp(ax.xaxis.get_ticklines(minor=False), markersize=10)
but I'm using matplotlib 1.0.1. I'm not sure if neither of those solutions
work.
Ben
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud <walksl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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