
.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/ticks/dollar_ticks.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_dollar_ticks.py>`
        to download the full example code.

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_ticks_dollar_ticks.py:


============
Dollar ticks
============

Use a format string to prepend dollar signs on y-axis labels.

.. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/dollar_ticks

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 10-29

.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot(100*np.random.rand(20))

    # Use automatic StrMethodFormatter
    ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter('${x:1.2f}')

    ax.yaxis.set_tick_params(which='major', labelcolor='green',
                             labelleft=False, labelright=True)

    plt.show()





.. image-sg:: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_dollar_ticks_001.png
   :alt: dollar ticks
   :srcset: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_dollar_ticks_001.png, /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_dollar_ticks_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 30-40

.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`
   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_formatter`
   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_tick_params`
   - `matplotlib.axis.Tick`
   - `matplotlib.ticker.StrMethodFormatter`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_dollar_ticks.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: dollar_ticks.ipynb <dollar_ticks.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: dollar_ticks.py <dollar_ticks.py>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: dollar_ticks.zip <dollar_ticks.zip>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_
