Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlapping ticks in x axis

[Sterling S. <sm...@fu...>]

Vineeth,

I think that you are looking for
from matplotlib.ticker import MaxNLocator

-Sterling

On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:38PM, vineeth wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have attached the histogram that I generated. When specifying large numbers like 1000 or more, the xticks tend to overlap and it gives a clumsy impression. Is there a way to avoid this?. What can be done to give gaps between the ticks?. Say in my case just show 3 to 4 ticks in x axis rather than specifying all the ticks. The following is my code:
> 
> def plotHistogram(veh_no, value, vehicle_no, fig_no):
> 
>    font = {'family' : 'serif',
>        'weight' : 'normal',
>        'size'   : 10}
>    rc('font', **font)
>    count = 1
>    legends = []
>    print veh_no
>    plt.figure(num=fig_no,dpi=105)
>    for i in range(len(value)):
>        ax = plt.subplot(2,2,i+1)
>        n, bins, patches = plt.hist(value[i],100,label=veh_no[i])
>        plt.ylabel('frequency',position=(0.5,0.5))
>        plt.xlabel('x valuels')
>        plt.grid()
>        min_val = int(round(min(value[i]),0))
>        max_val = int(round(max(value[i]),0))
>        ax.set_xlim(min_val-2,max_val+2)
>        locs,labels = plt.xticks()
>        plt.xticks(locs, map(lambda x: "%g" % x, locs))
>    plt.savefig('figurename.eps',dpi=70)
>    count += 1
> 
> Thank You
> Vineeth
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