Re: [Matplotlib-users] x= / y= labels default format is wrong

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> No, that applies to the axis ticks but not to the readout, and I think it is
> the latter that Xavier is concerned with--at least that is what I have been
> talking about, and want to improve.

Just to clarify -- by "readout" do you mean the toolbar strings?

At first I was assuming that since the toolbar formatting picks up the
tick Formatter to format the strings, and ScalarFormatter uses
rcParams['axes.formatter.limits'] to determine when to fall over to
scientific notation, that this setting would be picked up by the
toolbar.  The reason it does not is because ScalarFormatter overrides
Formatter.format_data_short, which is what the toolbar uses via
Axes.format_xdata/format_ydata, and ScalarFormatter.format_data_short
does not use the formatter.limits setting.  Are we at least on the
same page now?  If so, is it advisable/possible to make
format_data_short respect the formatter.limits setting so Xavier can
customize it to his heart's content.

JDH