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How to disable the minor ticks of log-plot in Matplotlib?

Asked 2012-05-28T07:46:43.660
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Here is a simple plot:

enter image description here

1) How to disable the ticks? 2) How to reduce their number?

Here is a sample code:

from pylab import *
import numpy as np

x = [5e-05, 5e-06, 5e-07, 5e-08, 5e-09, 5e-10]
y = [-13, 14, 100, 120, 105, 93]

def myfunc(x,p):
    sl,yt,yb,ec=p    
    y = yb + (yt-yb)/(1+np.power(10, sl*(np.log10(x)-np.log10(ec))))
    return y

xp = np.power(10, np.linspace(np.log10(min(x)/10), np.log10(max(x)*10), 100))

pxp=myfunc(xp, [1,100,0,1e-6])
subplot(111,axisbg="#dfdfdf")
plt.plot(x, y, '.', xp, pxp, 'g-', linewidth=1)   
plt.xscale('log')

plt.grid(True,ls="-", linewidth=0.4, color="#ffffff", alpha=0.5)


plt.draw()
plt.show()

Which produces: enter image description here

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from pylab import *
import numpy as np


x = [5e-05, 5e-06, 5e-07, 5e-08, 5e-09, 5e-10]
y = [-13, 14, 100, 120, 105, 93]

def myfunc(x,p):
    sl,yt,yb,ec=p    
    y = yb + (yt-yb)/(1+np.power(10, sl*(np.log10(x)-np.log10(ec))))
    return y

xp = np.power(10, np.linspace(np.log10(min(x)/10), np.log10(max(x)*10), 100))

pxp=myfunc(xp, [1,100,0,1e-6])
ax=subplot(111,axisbg="#dfdfdf")
plt.plot(x, y, '.', xp, pxp, 'g-', linewidth=1)   
plt.xscale('log')
plt.grid(True,ls="-", linewidth=0.4, color="#ffffff", alpha=0.5)
plt.minorticks_off() # turns off minor ticks

plt.draw()
plt.show()
answered 2012-05-28T08:14:33.880

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