Control behavior of major tick locators.

Because the locator is involved in autoscaling, ~.Axes.autoscale_view is called automatically after the parameters are changed.

Parameters¶

axis{‘both’, ‘x’, ‘y’}, default: ‘both’

The axis on which to operate. (For 3D Axes, axis can also be set to ‘z’, and ‘both’ refers to all three axes.)

tightbool or None, optional

Parameter passed to ~.Axes.autoscale_view. Default is None, for no change.

Other Parameters¶

**kwargs

Remaining keyword arguments are passed to directly to the set_params() method of the locator. Supported keywords depend on the type of the locator. See for example ~.ticker.MaxNLocator.set_params for the .ticker.MaxNLocator used by default for linear.

Examples¶

When plotting small subplots, one might want to reduce the maximum number of ticks and use tight bounds, for example:

ax.locator_params(tight=True, nbins=4)