How to prevent numbers being changed to exponential form in Python matplotlib figure
The formatting of tick labels is controlled by a Formatter object, which assuming you haven't done anything fancy will be a ScalerFormatterby default. This formatter will use a constant shift if the fractional change of the values visible is very small. To avoid this, simply turn it off:
plt.plot(arange(0,100,10) + 1000, arange(0,100,10))ax = plt.gca()ax.get_xaxis().get_major_formatter().set_useOffset(False)plt.draw()If you want to avoid scientific notation in general,
ax.get_xaxis().get_major_formatter().set_scientific(False)Can control this with globally via the axes.formatter.useoffset rcparam.
You can use a simpler command to turn it off:
plt.ticklabel_format(useOffset=False)
You can use something like:
from matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter, FormatStrFormatterax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('%.0f'))