Re: [Matplotlib-users] reduce the number of ticks

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2014/02/17 4:58 AM, Pierre Haessig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to get a plot with a small number of ticks, it is possible to
> create a matplotlib.ticker.MaxNLocator object with a small value for
> `nbins`.
>
> However, I found it also possible to modify the existing AutoLocator
> instances, since AutoLocator derives from MaxNLocator :
>
> ax.xaxis.major.locator.set_params(nbins=5)
> ax.yaxis.major.locator.set_params(nbins=5)
>
> (the default nbins value seems to be 9)
>
> The advantage of this inplace solution is that it doesn't any
> importing/browsing in the mpl namespace. However, it's still a bit long.
>
> I was then wondering :
> 1) is this solution recommended or not ?
> 2) is there a shortcup to avoird the five "dots" ?

http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=locator_params#matplotlib.pyplot.locator_params

This is both a pyplot function and an Axes method.

Eric

>
> best,
> Pierre