Re: [Matplotlib-users] tick sizes

[Andre' Walker-L. <wal...@gm...>]

well I knew there was a better solution, thanks.

I guess I'll just have to upgrade my installation.


Andre


On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Ben Breslauer wrote:

> 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 <wal...@gm...> 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 <wal...@gm...> 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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