Repository navigation
Edge ticks sometimes disappear #6641
Description
I am using
- matplotlib 1.5.1 installed with pip for Python 3.5.1+ on Ubuntu; and
- matplotlib 2.0.0b1+1708.g5de9c44 built from source for Python 3.5.1 on Scientific Linux 5.8.
Consider the example
import matplotlib
from matplotlib import pyplot
pyplot.xlim(0, 1.2)
pyplot.ylim(0, 1.2)
pyplot.annotate(matplotlib.__version__, (0, 0), (0.1, 1.1), 'data', 'data',
ha='left', va='top')
pyplot.savefig('lim.png')With the GitHub version of matplotlib, the last tick (1.2) is missing from both axes. This is a regression because matplotlib 1.5.1 can show both ticks without problem.
Activity
anntzer commentedon Jun 27, 2016
Bisected back to #5956. I wonder if the check for
interval_containsis really necessary? Can't we just rely on the ticker to only return ticks that are within the interval?efiring commentedon Jun 27, 2016
It looks like that check dates back to 2005--tickers have changed a lot since then, so yes, it seems reasonable to leave the responsibility for tick selection entirely to the tickers. It would be a good idea to check all of them to see whether they are handling floating point slop in a reasonable and consistent way.
anntzer commentedon Jun 27, 2016
The log-ticker seems to use a strict inequality check (e.g. there's no tick at 10 for
xlim(1, nextafter(10, 0))) but that's not really a problem (or at most a separate one), right?Also I am now not even certain that the whole dance with
Baseto handle floating point errors is necessary?efiring commentedon Jun 27, 2016
The Base machinery was put in explicitly for that purpose, because we were having problems, I believe; is there another mechanism that replaces it? (I didn't write Base, and haven't looked at it carefully.)
efiring commentedon Aug 29, 2016
#5956 has an obvious effect only on tick labels, not on whether a tick is drawn, so I don't see how it could be the cause of the change in behavior.
efiring commentedon Sep 6, 2016
Closed by #7042.