Remove axis label offset by default

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I've read other questions here offering

plt.gca().get_xaxis().get_major_formatter().set_useOffset(False)

as a way to remove axis offsets on the current plot, but is there any way to do this by default? I don't see anything in the matplotlibrc file that seems helpful.

Christoph · Answer 1 · 2017-03-10T12:44:28.043

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In 2013 a boolean matplotlibrc parameter called axes.formatter.useoffset was added, which can switch off the offset.

For example like this:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['axes.formatter.useoffset'] = False

edited Mar 10 '17 at 12:44

answered Apr 09 '15 at 10:20

Christoph

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Could you add a line showing us matplotlib perma-noobs how it would be used? Thanks! (something like [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9303922/3904031)). – uhoh Mar 10 '17 at 08:13
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@uhoh `import matplotlib.pyplot as plt; plt.rcParams['axes.formatter.useoffset'] = False` is equally possible. – ImportanceOfBeingErnest Feb 06 '18 at 21:53
Does not work when using subplot2grid, parameter just goes ignored. – misantroop Oct 29 '19 at 03:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '14 at 21:13

No, there is no way to do it. It is defined in the source file of ticker.py, line 353:

def __init__(self, useOffset=True, useMathText=None, useLocale=None):
    # useOffset allows plotting small data ranges with large offsets: for
    # example: [1+1e-9,1+2e-9,1+3e-9] useMathText will render the offset
    # and scientific notation in mathtext

    self.set_useOffset(useOffset)

as a default parameter values. So the default is True.

You can modify the source, of course.

This answer is wrong and editing your installation in-place is an extremely bad idea. — tacaswell, Apr 16 '19 at 16:28

Remove axis label offset by default

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