ENH: have get_*_ticks respect overlap filtering by default

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 24de3e90c960 · 2019-04-11T21:44:54.000-04:00
This will make sure extra ticks (that will not be used) will not
be returned.

The change to `get_major_ticks` is a no-op, but done for symmetry.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axis.py b/lib/matplotlib/axis.py
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ def get_minor_formatter(self):
     def get_major_ticks(self, numticks=None):
         'Get the tick instances; grow as necessary.'
         if numticks is None:
-            numticks = len(self.get_major_locator()())
+            numticks = len(self.get_majorticklocs())
 
         while len(self.majorTicks) < numticks:
             # Update the new tick label properties from the old.
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ def get_major_ticks(self, numticks=None):
     def get_minor_ticks(self, numticks=None):
         'Get the minor tick instances; grow as necessary.'
         if numticks is None:
-            numticks = len(self.get_minor_locator()())
+            numticks = len(self.get_minorticklocs())
 
         while len(self.minorTicks) < numticks:
             # Update the new tick label properties from the old.
