Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting grid density

[Philippe S. <phi...@pr...>]

From: "John Hunter" <jdh...@ac...
> >>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Strauss <phi...@pr...> writes:
>
>     Philippe> Hello, I'm new to matplotlib and this list.
>     Philippe> Congratulation to the developers of this great package,
>     Philippe> I've been looking for a long while for a good quality
>     Philippe> plotting package.
>
>     Philippe> I would like to plot time in hours on the x axis, with
>     Philippe> one minor grid per 15 minutes and one major grid per
>     Philippe> hour, but I can only see 10 fixed grids on all tutorial
>     Philippe> and documentation.
>
>     Philippe> How can I configure that?
>
> No support for minor and major ticks yet, but I can add it pretty
> quickly, probably for the next release due out soon.  I just need a
> little information.  How do grids interact with major and minor ticks?
> I know major ticks are generally bigger and are labeled, and minor
> ticks are smaller and not labeled, but I don't know how grid lines are
> usually handled with respect to major and minor ticks.  If you have a
> link to a canonical figure which uses major and minor ticks, I can
> follow that example.
>
> JDH

for my application, I need something that looks like Tobias Oetiker
RRD tool graph:




This one is 1h per minor grid and tick, 6h per majors.

Thanks!!