matplotlib.pyplot.locator_params — Matplotlib 3.10.3 documentation (original) (raw)

matplotlib.pyplot.locator_params(axis='both', tight=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Control behavior of major tick locators.

Because the locator is involved in autoscaling, autoscale_viewis called automatically after the parameters are changed.

Parameters:

axis{'both', 'x', 'y'}, default: 'both'

The axis on which to operate. (For 3D Axes, axis can also be set to 'z', and 'both' refers to all three axes.)

tightbool or None, optional

Parameter passed to autoscale_view. Default is None, for no change.

Other Parameters:

**kwargs

Remaining keyword arguments are passed to directly to theset_params() method of the locator. Supported keywords depend on the type of the locator. See for exampleset_params for the ticker.MaxNLocatorused by default for linear.

Notes

Examples

When plotting small subplots, one might want to reduce the maximum number of ticks and use tight bounds, for example:

ax.locator_params(tight=True, nbins=4)