Matplotlib imshow/matshow display values on plot

Question

I am trying to create a 10x10 grid using either imshow or matshow in Matplotlib. The function below takes a numpy array as input, and plots the gri

Answer 1

Can you do something like:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

min_val, max_val = 0, 10
ind_array = np.arange(min_val + 0.5, max_val + 0.5, 1.0)
x, y = np.meshgrid(ind_array, ind_array)

for i, (x_val, y_val) in enumerate(zip(x.flatten(), y.flatten())):
    c = 'x' if i%2 else 'o' 
    ax.text(x_val, y_val, c, va='center', ha='center')
#alternatively, you could do something like
#for x_val, y_val in zip(x.flatten(), y.flatten()):
#    c = 'x' if (x_val + y_val)%2 else 'o'

ax.set_xlim(min_val, max_val)
ax.set_ylim(min_val, max_val)
ax.set_xticks(np.arange(max_val))
ax.set_yticks(np.arange(max_val))
ax.grid()

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Edit:

Here is an updated example with an imshow background.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

min_val, max_val, diff = 0., 10., 1.

#imshow portion
N_points = (max_val - min_val) / diff
imshow_data = np.random.rand(N_points, N_points)
ax.imshow(imshow_data, interpolation='nearest')

#text portion
ind_array = np.arange(min_val, max_val, diff)
x, y = np.meshgrid(ind_array, ind_array)

for x_val, y_val in zip(x.flatten(), y.flatten()):
    c = 'x' if (x_val + y_val)%2 else 'o'
    ax.text(x_val, y_val, c, va='center', ha='center')

#set tick marks for grid
ax.set_xticks(np.arange(min_val-diff/2, max_val-diff/2))
ax.set_yticks(np.arange(min_val-diff/2, max_val-diff/2))
ax.set_xticklabels([])
ax.set_yticklabels([])
ax.set_xlim(min_val-diff/2, max_val-diff/2)
ax.set_ylim(min_val-diff/2, max_val-diff/2)
ax.grid()
plt.show()