Square root scale using matplotlib/python

Question

I want to make a plot with square root scale using Python:

However, I have no idea how to make it. Matplotlib allows to make log scale but in this case I ne

Answer 1

I like lolopop's comment and tom's answer, a more quick and dirty solution would be using set_yticks and set_yticklabels as in the following:

x = np.arange(2, 15, 2)
y = x * x

fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(122)

ax1.plot(x,y)

ax2.plot(x, np.sqrt(y))
ax2.set_yticks([2,4,6,8,10,12,14])
ax2.set_yticklabels(['4','16','36','64','100','144','196'])