Matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xscale() in Python

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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() 