Re: [Matplotlib-users] modifying colorbar ticklabels

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> Second and related advice: don't fiddle directly with tick labels except as
> a *last* resort.  Instead, take care in selecting tick values, and if
> necessary, customize the Formatter.
>

Agreed. It was a quick hack.

> The fact that a default Formatter is writing -0.0 strikes me as a bug that
> should be fixed in the Formatter; but it would be good to have more opinions
> about this.
>

This is a  behavior of python and I think it makes sense.

In [92]: print "%2.1f" % (-9e-6,)
-0.0

Regards,

-JJ