.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_pyplot_scales.py: ============= Pyplot Scales ============= Create plots on different scales. Here a linear, a logarithmic, a symmetric logarithmic and a logit scale are shown. For further examples also see the :ref:`scales_examples` section of the gallery. .. code-block:: default 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() # 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() .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_pyplot_scales_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.pyplot.subplot matplotlib.pyplot.subplots_adjust matplotlib.pyplot.gca matplotlib.pyplot.yscale matplotlib.ticker.NullFormatter matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_minor_formatter .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_pyplot_scales.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: pyplot_scales.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: pyplot_scales.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_