Skip to content

Fixes pyplot xticks() and yticks() by allowing setting only the labels #15788

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Closed
wants to merge 4 commits into from
+15 −8
Closed

Fixes pyplot xticks() and yticks() by allowing setting only the labels #15788

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
4 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
58feee2
Fixes and cleans code related to pyplot xticks() and yticks() to allo…
rscmendes Nov 28, 2019
31f332e
Adds description of new feature to next_whats_new
rscmendes Nov 29, 2019
efdb4aa
Fixes typo from last commit in next_whats_new file
rscmendes Nov 29, 2019
77f62eb
Fixes documentation from previous commit
rscmendes Nov 29, 2019
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions doc/users/next_whats_new/2019-11-29-pyplot-ticks-labels.rst
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
ticks' labels can now be set without passing ``ticks`` in pyplot
----------------------------------------------------------------

``pyplot.xticks()`` and ``pyplot.yticks()`` can now be used to set ticks'
labels without requiring to pass the ``ticks`` parameter.
18 changes: 10 additions & 8 deletions lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1428,15 +1428,16 @@ def xticks(ticks=None, labels=None, **kwargs):
"""
ax = gca()

if ticks is None and labels is None:
if ticks is None:
locs = ax.get_xticks()
labels = ax.get_xticklabels()
elif labels is None:
else:
locs = ax.set_xticks(ticks)

if labels is None:
labels = ax.get_xticklabels()
else:
locs = ax.set_xticks(ticks)
labels = ax.set_xticklabels(labels, **kwargs)

for l in labels:
l.update(kwargs)

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1503,15 +1504,16 @@ def yticks(ticks=None, labels=None, **kwargs):
"""
ax = gca()

if ticks is None and labels is None:
if ticks is None:
locs = ax.get_yticks()
labels = ax.get_yticklabels()
elif labels is None:
else:
locs = ax.set_yticks(ticks)

if labels is None:
labels = ax.get_yticklabels()
else:
locs = ax.set_yticks(ticks)
labels = ax.set_yticklabels(labels, **kwargs)

for l in labels:
l.update(kwargs)

Expand Down