Currently, some Locator subclasses define a nonsingular() method, which
is used by autoscale_view() in case the autoscaling would return a
degenerate interval, to expand the view limits; autoscale_view() falls
back on a default in case the nonsingular() method does not exist. Move
that default to the Locator base class.

Also use that nonsingular() method when a degenerate interval is passed
to set_xlim/set_ylim/etc., instead of always hardcoding the same linear
expansion.

(Semantically the correct place for this nonsingular() method is
probably on the scale class rather than on the locator...)

The changes to test_ticker are due to the fact that the default
expansion is now by 5%, so there's no offset text anymore in the
left=right=123 case (as it gets expanded to 116.85, 129.15).

e.g. for xscale("log"); xlim(.1, .1) one used to get

but one now gets

(in both cases with the "Attempting to set identical left == right == 0.1 results in singular transformations; automatically expanding." warning).

May be worth doing the same on colorbars, but their locator isn't set yet when the expansion needs to be done :/

PR Summary

PR Checklist

• Has Pytest style unit tests
• Code is Flake 8 compliant
• New features are documented, with examples if plot related
• Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant
• Added an entry to doc/users/next_whats_new/ if major new feature (follow instructions in README.rst there)
• Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way