''' Demo to show use of the engineering Formatter. ''' import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from matplotlib.ticker import EngFormatter prng = np.random.RandomState(123) fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_xscale('log') formatter = EngFormatter(unit='Hz') ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter) xs = np.logspace(1, 9, 100) ys = (0.8 + 0.4 * prng.uniform(size=100)) * np.log10(xs)**2 ax.plot(xs, ys) plt.show()