.. 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 ------------ 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 `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_