Re: [Matplotlib-users] axis default formatting with strange scientific-like notation

[Phil E. <pel...@gm...>]

I'm not aware of an rc param for this. The relevant github issue:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/461

Regards,

Phil



On 19 August 2012 21:27, Christopher Graves <chr...@gm...>wrote:

> Using matplotlib 1.1.1.
> If one runs the following code:
>
> from pylab import *
>
> plot([19.185,19.187],[0.0009,0.0011],'b.')
>
> show()
>
> The x-axis is labelled 0.0005, 0.0010, 0.0015 etc  +1.9184e1
>
> This is unreadable and does not seem like a good default behavior!
>
> One can add
> gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('$%g$'))
> before "show()"
> to obtain an x-axis labelled 19.1845, 19.185, 19.1855, etc.
>
> Can one change the default label formatting behavior with a matplotlib rc?
> However, I would not want to e.g. override the 10^-3, 10^-2, etc when using
> log axes.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
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