Re: [Matplotlib-users] MultipleLocator and MaxNLocator

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

On 2015/02/13 3:29 PM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Is it possible to combine MultipleLocator and MaxNLocator? One seems
> to erase the effect of the other.

They are for different situations.  MultipleLocator is for when you know 
what you want your tick interval to be; MaxNLocator is for when you 
don't know that, but you do know roughly how many ticks you want, and 
what sort of numerical intervals are acceptable.

Eric