Re: [Matplotlib-users] subplot axis ticks

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

I wonder if setting the locator params prior to plotting would fix that?

Might be one of those rare situations where the order of commands matter in
matplotlib.

Ben Root

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Gabriele Brambilla <
gb....@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I already saw that stack overflow page but
>
> this is my code:
>
> azal = rif.add_subplot(111)
> azal.plot(eels*(10**9), averspe, label='data')
> azal.plot(eels*(10**9), beck, label='fit')
>
> I tried to add both
> azal.yaxis.locator_params(nbins=4)
> or
> azal.locator_params(nbins=4)
>
> and it doesn't work.
>
> Gabriele
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jody Klymak <jk...@uv...> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6682784/how-to-reduce-number-of-ticks-with-matplotlib
>>
>> is the easy way.  You can also write your own “Locators” that are more
>> sophisticated if you have some ideas in mind (i.e. close to 5 ticks, but
>> you’d prefer whole numbers, etc).
>>
>> http://matplotlib.org/1.4.2/examples/pylab_examples/major_minor_demo1.html
>>
>> Cheers,   Jody
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2014, at  6:29 AM, Gabriele Brambilla <
>> gb....@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to set the NUMBER of ticks on a subplot axis.
>> Googling I'm finding only how to set the ticks values...but what if I
>> don't know them and for visual reasons I would like to have a fixed number
>> of ticks?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Gabriele
>>
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