That makes sense. Thank you. João
> On 28 Jul 2015, at 16:08, Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 16:01 Joao Quinta da Fonseca > <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use LaTeX on the ylabel of a plot using: > > plt.ylabel("$\alpha$”) > > and I am seeing very inconsistent behaviour. If I use $\alpha$ I get an error > (see below), but \gamma is fine. $\tau does not give an error but plots a > strange character. > > Can you help? thanks > > This is to do with how Python handles strings and is not a matplotlib issue. > The \ is an escape character in Python strings but only for certain letters > e.g. \t is a tab character etc: > > In [3]: print('$\tau$') > $ au$ > > In [4]: print('$\alpha$') > $lpha$ > > \g is not an escape so: > > In [5]: print('$\gamma$') > $\gamma$ > > To include slashes in your string you either need to double them up or use > raw strings: > > In [8]: print(r'$\alpha$') > $\alpha$ > > In [9]: print('$\\alpha$') > $\alpha$ > > -- > Oscar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
