.. only:: html
.. 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_dollar_ticks.py:
============
Dollar Ticks
============
Use a `~.ticker.FormatStrFormatter` to prepend dollar signs on y axis labels.
.. code-block:: default
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(100*np.random.rand(20))
formatter = ticker.FormatStrFormatter('$%1.2f')
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter)
for tick in ax.yaxis.get_major_ticks():
tick.label1.set_visible(False)
tick.label2.set_visible(True)
tick.label2.set_color('green')
plt.show()
.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_dollar_ticks_001.png
:class: sphx-glr-single-img
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References
""""""""""
The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
in this example:
.. code-block:: default
import matplotlib
matplotlib.ticker
matplotlib.ticker.FormatStrFormatter
matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_formatter
matplotlib.axis.Axis.get_major_ticks
matplotlib.axis.Tick
.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_dollar_ticks.py:
.. only :: html
.. container:: sphx-glr-footer
:class: sphx-glr-footer-example
.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python
:download:`Download Python source code: dollar_ticks.py `
.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter
:download:`Download Jupyter notebook: dollar_ticks.ipynb `
.. only:: html
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature
Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
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