formatting axis to percent notation

I'm new to matplotlib. Currently the x-axis shows numbers from 0 to 1.
  I would like it to show it in percent notation (e.g. 0% to 100%).
  How do I do this in matplotlib?

Thanks,

Kevin

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I'm new to matplotlib. Currently the x-axis shows numbers from 0 to 1.
  I would like it to show it in percent notation (e.g. 0% to 100%).
  How do I do this in matplotlib?

You can either multiply your x data by 100 (where x is a numpy array)

plot(x*100, y)

or set a custom formatter

from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter

def myfunc(x, pos=0):
    return '%1.2f''%(100*x)

ax = subplot(111)
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(FuncFormatter(myfunc))

There is a section on custom tick formatting in the user's guide on the web site

JDH

JDH

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On Jan 16, 2008 1:03 PM, Kevin Christman <kchristman54@...9...> wrote:

John Hunter wrote:

def myfunc(x, pos=0):
    return '%1.2f''%(100*x)

And you may want to try:

def myfunc(x, pos=0):
     return '%1.2f%%''%(100*x)

to get a percent sign after each value. (I mention it only because the "double percent" trick is non-obvious to many newcomers to Python's string formatting syntax.)

Cheers,
Mike

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On Jan 16, 2008 1:03 PM, Kevin Christman <kchristman54@...9...> wrote:

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