Re: [Matplotlib-users] MultipleLocator and MaxNLocator

[Tommy C. <tom...@gm...>]

Thanks Eric. I decided to get peace of mind and just set the tick
labels manually. I can't afford to spend several hours on all of my
plots. I appreciate your help a lot.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 2015/02/14 9:15 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
>>
>> Eric, it works if I do:
>>           return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[2:]
>>
>> But not if I do as first suggested by you:
>>           return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[1:]
>>
>
> Are you using my test script but getting a different result?  If not, what
> is the difference in your test script?
>
>> I don't understand this behaviour. It should be [1:]. I'll just set
>> the ticks manually. Seems to be the easiest thing. It would be
>> awesome, if MPL had the same behaviour as gnuplot, which allows me to
>> simply do:
>> set xtics <start>, <incr>
>
>
> def xtics(ax, start, incr):
>     stop = ax.dataLim.x1 + 0.01 * incr
>     ax.xaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(start, stop, incr))
>
>
> Now invoke that function *after* all your plot calls, so that the dataLim
> bounding box includes all the data in your plot.
>
> Eric