Re: [Matplotlib-users] Translating ticks a la MultipleLocator ?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 4/10/07, Iyer <mas...@ya...> wrote:
> I apologize if I haven't been sufficiently clear.
>
> While your suggestion picks out the samples from the
> sample set, and discards other samples - what I was
> looking at --
>
> when I plot a sample set, of say - 1000 points, the
> xticks shows up as 0 to 1000 points on the plot.
>
> I was wondering if there could be a way to translate
> the xtick display to that of seconds, if the sampling
> frequency is 250 Hz, the plot would still display the
> original data set, but with different xticks -- for
> e.g. it would display xticks as 0 to 4 seconds rather
> than 0 to 1000 points.. hence is there a good way to
> "translate ticks" ?

Yes, you can certainly do this, but what we are suggesting is that it
makes more sense to simply scale your data before plotting.  Is there
a reason you don't want to do this

  ax.plot(ind*dt, y)

The index locator

JDH