How to remove relative shift in matplotlib axis

Question

When I try to do a plot against a range with big enough numbers I get an axis with relative shift for all the ticks. For example:

plot([1000, 1001, 1002], [1, 2, 3])

I get these ticks on axis of abscissas:

0.0     0.5     1.0     1.5     2.0
                               +1e3

The question is how to remove +1e3 and get just:

1000.0  1000.5  1001.0  1001.5  1002.0

tacaswell · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-09 20:40:56Z

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plot([1000, 1001, 1002], [1, 2, 3])
gca().get_xaxis().get_major_formatter().set_useOffset(False)
draw()

This grabs the current axes, gets the x-axis axis object and then the major formatter object and sets useOffset to false (doc).

In newer versions (1.4+) of matplotlib the default behavior can be changed via the axes.formatter.useoffset rcparam.

edited Aug 9, 2014 at 20:40

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 5:18

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zbyszek · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-28 18:32:01Z

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To disable relative shift everywhere, set the rc parameter:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rc('axes.formatter', useoffset=False)

edited Feb 28, 2017 at 18:32

answered Feb 15, 2017 at 16:00

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3 Comments

khelwood Over a year ago

Maybe you should add some explanation to your answer so it is not just code.

bahrep Over a year ago

While this code snippet may solve the question, including an explanation really helps to improve the quality of your post. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, and those people might not know the reasons for your code suggestion.

zbyszek Over a year ago

Updated to add an explanation.

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