On Mar 1, 9:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 1, 3:10 pm, "John Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been asking this question at the matplotlib user list and never > > gotten an answer. I am hoping that there are matplotlib users here > > that can help. > > > My problem with matplotlib's way of handling axes label is illustrated > > by this example: > > >http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/MulticoloredLine > > > Notice that the y-axis goes from (-1.1, 1.1) but the first label is at > > -1.0. > > (snipped) > > > Is there a way to force the label to start at -1.1 instead of -1.0? > > > Thanks, > > You can try adjusting the labels and ticks > using matplotlib.ticker. > > To the example you cited, one can add > > from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator, FormatStrFormatter > > # ... > > minorLocator = MultipleLocator(0.1) > minorFormattor = FormatStrFormatter('%0.1f') > ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(minorLocator) > ax.yaxis.set_minor_formatter(minorFormattor) > > show() > > -- > Hope this helps, > Steven
Thank you for the response. Yes, adding those lines did work. But what exactly is going on here? Why would adding these two lines works? Thanks, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
