Re: [Matplotlib-users] What is a autopct format function?

[Francesco M. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Mark,

2012/10/8 mgurling <mag...@gm...>

> I called plt.pie with autopct='%1.1f%%' and got the labels I wanted.
> However,
> when I added the line
>
> mpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True
>
> the % disappeared from my labels. I'd like to be able to use LaTex for
> text,
> but can't figure out how to get the % back on my labels.
>

in (La)Tex % is a comment and to print it you have to escape it with '\'.
Have you tried autopct='%1.1f\%'?
Cheers,
Francesco



> I've read the documentation for autopct
>
>
> > autopct: [ None | format string | format function ]
> >     If not None, is a string or function used to label the wedges with
> > their numeric value. The label will be placed inside the wedge. If it is
> a
> > format string, the label will be fmt%pct. If it is a function, it will be
> > called.
>
> and I am wondering what a format function would look like. All of the
> examples using autopct that I can find use a format string similar to
> %1.1f%% and none seem to use functions.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) How might I get the % back on my labels (whether this requires a format
> function or not)?
> 2) What would a format function look like when used with autopct?
>
>
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