Re: [Matplotlib-users] Custom y-axis

[Gökhan S. <gok...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Florian Lindner <mai...@xg...>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> my matter is a bit difficult to explain for me, I hope you get the picture.
>
> I want to (line) plot pressure and temperatur at different stations in an
> aircraft engine. The stations are labeled like 0, 1, 2, 22, 23, 3, ...
> (order is like that). Stations are on the y-axis and should be plotted
> equidistant. Two x-axisis are temperatur/pressure.
>
> T
> ^                    x
> |                x
> |            x
> |        x
> |    x
> |x
> o- - - - - - - - - - - -> station
>  0   1   2   22  23  3
>
> (given an linear increase in temperatur)
>
> My plot would be correct with:
>
> plot([1,2,3], [300,350,700]) but the y-axis should have my custom label.
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Florian
>

You can just use custom tick-labels. Here is a simple example:

locs, labels = yticks([1,2,3,4,5,6],['150', '300', '600', '1200', '1800'])
setp(labels, 'rotation', 'horizontal')
yticklabels = getp(gca(), 'yticklabels')

-- 
Gökhan