Merge pull request #6375 from tacaswell/api_cb_default_locator

efiring · efiring · commit f82fc3bec0f3 · 2016-05-09T10:02:25.000-10:00
API: default locator on colorbars to AutoLocator
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/colorbar.py b/lib/matplotlib/colorbar.py
@@ -576,7 +576,10 @@ def _ticker(self):
                 elif isinstance(self.norm, colors.LogNorm):
                     locator = ticker.LogLocator()
                 else:
-                    locator = ticker.MaxNLocator()
+                    if mpl.rcParams['_internal.classic_mode']:
+                        locator = ticker.MaxNLocator()
+                    else:
+                        locator = ticker.AutoLocator()
             else:
                 b = self._boundaries[self._inside]
                 locator = ticker.FixedLocator(b, nbins=10)
