Matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xscale() in Python

Matplotlib is a library in Python and it is numerical – mathematical extension for NumPy library. The Axes Class contains most of the figure elements: Axis, Tick, Line2D, Text, Polygon, etc., and sets the coordinate system. And the instances of Axes supports callbacks through a callbacks attribute.

matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xscale() Function

The Axes.get_xscale() function in axes module of matplotlib library is used to return the x-axis scale as string.

Syntax: Axes.get_xscale(self)

Parameters: This method does not accepts any parameters.

Return: This function return the x-axis scale as a string.

Below examples illustrate the matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_yscale() function in matplotlib.axes:

Example 1:

# Implementation of matplotlib function
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.plot([1, 2, 3])

w = ax.get_xscale()

ax.set_title("xscale property : "+ str(w),
              fontweight ="bold")
fig.suptitle('matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xscale()\
 function Example\n', fontweight ="bold")

fig.canvas.draw()
plt.show()

Output:

Example 2:

# Implementation of matplotlib function
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.ticker import EngFormatter

val = np.random.RandomState(19680801)
xs = np.logspace(1, 9, 100)
ys = (0.8 + 4 * val.uniform(size = 100)) * np.log10(xs)**2

fig, ax0 = plt.subplots()
ax0.set_xscale('log')
formatter0 = EngFormatter(unit ='Hz')
ax0.xaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter0)
ax0.plot(xs, ys)
ax0.set_xlabel('Frequency')

w = ax0.get_xscale()

ax0.set_title("xscale property : "+ str(w),
              fontweight ="bold")
fig.suptitle('matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xscale()\
 function Example\n', fontweight ="bold")

fig.canvas.draw()
plt.show()

Output: