title: Python - Matplotlib - Axis Labels
body: <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ynalx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ynalx.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to plot four figure labels with two decimal places - e.g '1475.88' onto my X-Axis. As you can see the label has been shorted by Matplotlib to the scientific format 1.478e3.</p>
  
  <p>How do I display the full figure, and at a defined spacing.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Code below:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>with plt.style.context('seaborn-whitegrid'):
  
      # Plot the SVP data
      plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
      plt.plot(speed_x_clean, depth_y_clean)
      plt.plot(smoothed_speed, smoothed_depth)
      plt.scatter(float(speed_extrapolated), float(depth_extrapolated),marker='X', color='#ff007f')
  
      # Add a legend, labels and titla
      plt.gca().invert_yaxis()
      plt.legend(('Raw SVP', 'Smoothed SVP'), loc='best')
      plt.title('SVP - ROV '+ '['+ time_now + ']')
      plt.xlabel('Sound Velocity [m/s]')
      plt.ylabel('Depth [m]')
  
      # plt.grid(color='grey', linestyle='--', linewidth=0.25, grid_animated=True)
      ax = plt.axes()
      plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_locator(plt.AutoLocator())
      plt.xticks(rotation=0)
  
      plt.show()
  </code></pre>