Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.lang.python > #18991

Re: scientific notation in legend (pylab)

References <b7e4a434-e6dd-4f1c-bfc9-164ad0fe74c0@i26g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>
Date 2012-01-15 03:27 +0000
Subject Re: scientific notation in legend (pylab)
From Jason Friedman <jason@powerpull.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.4759.1326598036.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw


> I I would like to have numbers expressed in scientific notation in
> legend annotations. Does anybody know how to do that?
>

Not sure why legend annotations makes the problem different, but
perhaps this is a start:

$ python3
Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Jun 11 2011, 10:38:04)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print("{:e}".format(1000))
1.000000e+03

http://docs.python.org/library/string.html

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

scientific notation in legend (pylab) simona bellavista <afylot@gmail.com> - 2012-01-14 07:27 -0800
  Re: scientific notation in legend (pylab) Jason Friedman <jason@powerpull.net> - 2012-01-15 03:27 +0000
    Re: scientific notation in legend (pylab) simona bellavista <afylot@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 11:58 -0800
      Re: scientific notation in legend (pylab) Jason Friedman <jason@powerpull.net> - 2012-01-18 20:21 -0700

csiph-web