DOC: Wrapped to 72 chars and fixed a couple of missed spots

madphysicist · madphysicist · commit c94d0b172b2c · 2016-04-11T16:33:08.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py b/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 Tick locating and formatting
 ============================
 
-This module contains classes to support completely configurable tick locating
-and formatting.  Although the locators know nothing about major or minor
-ticks, they are used by the Axis class to support major and minor tick
-locating and formatting.  Generic tick locators and formatters are provided,
-as well as domain specific custom ones..
+This module contains classes to support completely configurable tick
+locating and formatting.  Although the locators know nothing about major
+or minor ticks, they are used by the Axis class to support major and
+minor tick locating and formatting.  Generic tick locators and
+formatters are provided, as well as domain specific custom ones..
 
 
 Default Formatter
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 The Locator class is the base class for all tick locators.  The locators
 handle autoscaling of the view limits based on the data limits, and the
 choosing of tick locations.  A useful semi-automatic tick locator is
-MultipleLocator.  You initialize this with a base, e.g., 10, and it picks axis
-limits and ticks that are multiples of your base.
+MultipleLocator.  You initialize this with a base, e.g., 10, and it
+picks axis limits and ticks that are multiples of your base.
 
 The Locator subclasses defined here are
 
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@
     logarithmically ticks from min to max
 
 :class:`SymmetricalLogLocator`
-    locator for use with with the symlog norm, works like the `LogLocator` for
-    the part outside of the threshold and add 0 if inside the limits
+    locator for use with with the symlog norm, works like the
+    `LogLocator` for the part outside of the threshold and add 0 if
+    inside the limits
 
 :class:`MultipleLocator`
     ticks and range are a multiple of base;
@@ -790,8 +791,13 @@ def __init__(self, base=10.0, labelOnlyBase=True):
         self.labelOnlyBase = labelOnlyBase
 
     def base(self, base):
-        """change the *base* for labeling - warning: should always match the
-           base used for :class:`LogLocator`"""
+        """
+        change the `base` for labeling.
+
+        .. warning::
+           Should always match the base used for :class:`LogLocator`
+
+        """
         self._base = base
 
     def label_minor(self, labelOnlyBase):
@@ -803,7 +809,9 @@ def label_minor(self, labelOnlyBase):
         self.labelOnlyBase = labelOnlyBase
 
     def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
-        """Return the format for tick val *x* at position *pos*"""
+        """
+        Return the format for tick val `x` at position `pos`.
+        """
         vmin, vmax = self.axis.get_view_interval()
         d = abs(vmax - vmin)
         b = self._base
@@ -834,7 +842,9 @@ def format_data(self, value):
         return value
 
     def format_data_short(self, value):
-        'return a short formatted string representation of a number'
+        """
+        Return a short formatted string representation of a number.
+        """
         return '%-12g' % value
 
     def pprint_val(self, x, d):
@@ -872,7 +882,7 @@ def pprint_val(self, x, d):
 
 class LogFormatterExponent(LogFormatter):
     """
-    Format values for log axis using ``exponent = log_base(value)``
+    Format values for log axis using ``exponent = log_base(value)``.
     """
     def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
         """
