Python matplotlib restrict to integer tick locations

Question

Quite often I want to make a bar chart of counts. If the counts are low I often get major and/or minor tick locations that are not integers. How can I prevent this? It makes

Answer 1

You can use the MaxNLocator method, like so:

    from pylab import MaxNLocator

    ya = axes.get_yaxis()
    ya.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(integer=True))