Re: [Matplotlib-users] tick format support for ``format``

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Alan G Isaac <ai...@am...> wrote:

> Am I overlooking tick format support for ``format``?
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#format
>
> If not, might it be added?
>
> Ordinarily I'd use FormatStrFormatter, but this time
> I wanted percentages, so I had to (?) use FuncFormatter.
> This was both surprising (because ``format`` is core
> Python functionality) and confusing (because the docs
> did not point out that the user-provided function must
> take two arguments).
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
>
>
I second this.  Given that the '%' approach to formatting will be deprecated
in later releases of the 3.x series, it probably would be a good idea to
start transitioning to the new approach.

To start, I would like to see a note added to the FormatStrFormatter docs
pointing to an example on how to use FuncFormatter to implement the new
style formatter.

Ben Root