Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: ticks disappearing

[Nicolas G. <nic...@ne...>]

On Monday 13 June 2005 22:57, John Hunter wrote:
> Are you using the same tick locator on different axes? 

Thanks for your answer ; yes, I am

> You shouldn't be.  

Oh, really ? Then it must be that. Let me try... OK, I used

  a.yaxis.set_major_locator(LinearLocator(numticks=3))

instead of reusing the same locator, and here's the result:

  http://nicolasgirard.nerim.net/3ticks.png

As you can see, there's a big improvement but still a problem with the 
subplots on the right.

I'd suggest add to the docs the fact that a locator shouldn't be reused, 
because it's not obvious, since a valid semantics is:

  majorLocator = LinearLocator(numticks=3)
  ...
  anAxis.set_major_locator(majorLocator)

which I understood as:

  "anAxis's locator should be linear, with 3 ticks"


> You should try and create a standalone script that exposes your 
> bug.

Okay, I'll do it, but perhaps not before the next week-end...

cheers,
nicolas