set_scale and set_xscale

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Hello,

Aren’t these two log scaling calls supposed to be performing the same action?

Here is a simple script tested in ipython --pylab

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5))

ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)

ax1.plot(np.random.randn(100))

ax1.xaxis.set_scale(‘log’)

ax1.set_xscale(‘log’)

Thanks.

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–
Gökhan

2

Intuitively, I guess they should be identical, but they don’t seem to be. It seems like for “ax1.xaxis.set_scale(‘log’)”, everything is set correctly, except the projection.

Ben Root

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever@…287…> wrote:

Hello,

Aren’t these two log scaling calls supposed to be performing the same action?

Here is a simple script tested in ipython --pylab

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5))

ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)

ax1.plot(np.random.randn(100))

ax1.xaxis.set_scale(‘log’)

ax1.set_xscale(‘log’)

3

There is no documentation supplied for the first call. Should I file
an issue for this on github?

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@...1304...> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever@...287...> wrote:

Hello,

Aren't these two log scaling calls supposed to be performing the same
action?

Here is a simple script tested in ipython --pylab

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax1.plot(np.random.randn(100))

ax1.xaxis.set_scale('log')
ax1.set_xscale('log')

Intuitively, I guess they should be identical, but they don't seem to be.
It seems like for "ax1.xaxis.set_scale('log')", everything is set correctly,
except the projection.

Ben Root

--
Gökhan

4

Wouldn’t hurt. Be sure to include an image showing the result of each command.

Ben

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever@…287…> wrote:

There is no documentation supplied for the first call. Should I file

an issue for this on github?

5

Here it comes -> set_scale and set_xscale · Issue #1871 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@...1304...> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever@...1896....> > wrote:

There is no documentation supplied for the first call. Should I file
an issue for this on github?

Wouldn't hurt. Be sure to include an image showing the result of each
command.

Ben

--
Gökhan