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alvarezcl
alvarezcl

Reputation: 579

Change Y axis tick formatters in Python Matplotlib

I have a graph over 

[1,2,3,4,5]

with values that are quite small:

[0.000001,0.000002,...]

When I plot this, it shows the y axis ticks with the whole decimal. I would like something like 

[1e-6,2e-6...]

to pop up instead. How can I do that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1391

Answers (1)

ca_san
ca_san

Reputation: 193

This is probably what you are looking for:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ...

plt.ticklabel_format(style='sci', axis='y', scilimits=(0,0))

style sci for scientific notation, axis y to format y axis only, m,n to include all numbers for which scientific notation should be applied (0,0 for all)

Upvotes: 2

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