[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib INSISTS on using scientific notation, how do I make it STOP!?

[Todamont <re...@un...>]

I'm charting financial data, so scientific notation is unwanted in ALL cases.
Sometimes if I pass it data with just a few trades right near each other, it
scales so the y-axis get set to some bizare exponent, like 1.7321e1. By the
way, why would anyone ever want a plot in scientific notation where the
exponent is not a power of 10? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that
it would do that, it is a bug.

So, here is the code I'm trying to use to force matplotlib to NOT use
scientific notation on the y-axis, unsuccesfully:

   formatter = ScalarFormatter()
   formatter.set_scientific(False)
   formatter.set_powerlimits((-10000,10000))
   pl.yaxis.set_major_formatter(FuncFormatter(lambda x, pos: '%.0f'%x))
   pl.yaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter)
   pl.yaxis.set_minor_formatter(FuncFormatter(lambda x, pos: '%.0f'%x))
   pl.yaxis.set_minor_formatter(formatter)
   pl.set_autoscaley_on(False)
   yfm = pl.yaxis.get_major_formatter()
   yfm.set_powerlimits([ -10000, 10000])


None of these attempts to turn off scientific notation is working. Any
suggestions? Please? 



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