Re: [Matplotlib-users] How can I avoid sharey tick ovelap?

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Friday 24 November 2006 3:34 pm, Pierre GM wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 15:14, Darren Dale wrote:
> > Or, you can change the formatter of your yaxis to OldScalarFormatter,
> > which renders the scientific notation in each tick label, rather than at
> > the top of the axis.
>
> Thinking about it: is there a way to grab this scientific notation ? The
> idea would be to get the corresponding object as a string, and update the
> ylabel with it.

Yes, the scientific notation is a matplotlib text object, which you can grab 
like this:

plot([0,1e10])
a=gca()
t=a.yaxis.get_offset_text()

and then you can get the string:

s=t.get_text()

Darren