.. _pyplots-pyplot_scales: pyplots example code: pyplot_scales.py ====================================== [`source code `_] :: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.ticker import NullFormatter # useful for `logit` scale # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) # make up some data in the interval ]0, 1[ y = np.random.normal(loc=0.5, scale=0.4, size=1000) y = y[(y > 0) & (y < 1)] y.sort() x = np.arange(len(y)) # plot with various axes scales plt.figure(1) # linear plt.subplot(221) plt.plot(x, y) plt.yscale('linear') plt.title('linear') plt.grid(True) # log plt.subplot(222) plt.plot(x, y) plt.yscale('log') plt.title('log') plt.grid(True) # symmetric log plt.subplot(223) plt.plot(x, y - y.mean()) plt.yscale('symlog', linthreshy=0.01) plt.title('symlog') plt.grid(True) # logit plt.subplot(224) plt.plot(x, y) plt.yscale('logit') plt.title('logit') plt.grid(True) # Format the minor tick labels of the y-axis into empty strings with # `NullFormatter`, to avoid cumbering the axis with too many labels. plt.gca().yaxis.set_minor_formatter(NullFormatter()) # Adjust the subplot layout, because the logit one may take more space # than usual, due to y-tick labels like "1 - 10^{-3}" plt.subplots_adjust(top=0.92, bottom=0.08, left=0.10, right=0.95, hspace=0.25, wspace=0.35) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)