Class AutoLocator

lib/matplotlib/ticker.py:3028–3047

Place evenly spaced ticks, with the step size and maximum number of ticks chosen automatically. This is a subclass of `~matplotlib.ticker.MaxNLocator`, with parameters *nbins = 'auto'* and *steps = [1, 2, 2.5, 5, 10]*.

class AutoLocator(MaxNLocator):
    """
    Place evenly spaced ticks, with the step size and maximum number of ticks chosen
    automatically.

    This is a subclass of `~matplotlib.ticker.MaxNLocator`, with parameters
    *nbins = 'auto'* and *steps = [1, 2, 2.5, 5, 10]*.
    """
    def __init__(self):
        """
        To know the values of the non-public parameters, please have a
        look to the defaults of `~matplotlib.ticker.MaxNLocator`.
        """
        if mpl.rcParams['_internal.classic_mode']:
            nbins = 9
            steps = [1, 2, 5, 10]
        else:
            nbins = 'auto'
            steps = [1, 2, 2.5, 5, 10]
        super().__init__(nbins=nbins, steps=steps)


class AutoMinorLocator(Locator):