Re: [Matplotlib-users] x axis non-uniform labeling (KURT PETERS)

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

On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:01AM, Jody Klymak wrote:

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> On Oct 1, 2013, at  10:55 AM, KURT PETERS <pet...@ms...> wrote:
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>> Goyo,
>>   Thanks, the code below seems to work.  The problem is that with "REAL/actual" data, I have SO many data points that each point is now labeled and it takes forever to render.  And when it does render, I cannot read the axis because there are too many there.  Is there a way to judiciously have it only display a certain number of values?  Such as every 100th value?
>> Kurt
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>> ax2.set_xticks(xdat)
>> ax2.set_xticklabels(simtimedata)
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> ax2.set_xticks(xdat[::100])
> ax2.set_xticklabels(simtimedata[::100])
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> Cheers,  Jody
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I thought that, too, but then he used the word 'judiciously'.  I think that you want to change the xaxis major formatter so that it returns the indexed element of simtimedata as the label.  Example to come in a moment.
-Sterling