Question

My problem is that when I plot y-values that are very close, matplotlib uses a bias for the yticklabel as seen in the picture below (+1.2 in the top left corner).

I don’t want the bias as it does not reduce the length of the yticklabels. How can I remove the bias, so that it shows 1.2000010, 1.2000012…

Here is the code I used to generate the example:

from pylab import *

plot((0,1),(1.200001,1.200002))
show()

Answer 1

The easiest (and probably preferred) way of achieving this using the pyplot interface is using the supplied function pyplot.ticklabel_format in a way analogous to

from pylab import *

plot((0,1),(1.200001,1.200002))
ticklabel_format(useOffset=False)
show()

The other proposed solutions give you more direct control, though.