[Matplotlib-users] 'bug' in labelling axes for data with small variation?

[Hans F. <H.F...@so...>]

Dear Matplotlib developers,

running the following program

import pylab

x=pylab.arange(0,1e-8,1e-9)+1.0
pylab.plot(x)
pylab.show()

with matplotlib 0.70.1 results in a graph that shows:

(i) correctly the linear increase of x
(ii) but the labels on the y-axis of the plot all show "1e", apart from 
the lowest one, which shows (correctly) just "1".

All works fine when I subtract the mean of x but there seems to be a 
problem with labelling axes for plotted data which is not close to zero 
but shows only small variations.

By the way: thank you for providing matplotlib.

Cheers,

Hans