Better way to chose numbers of x and y ticklabels in Python Matplotlib.pyplot

The result is:

This page shows the better way to chose numbers of x and y ticklabels.

In [1]:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

In [2]:

x = [0,2,5,9,10]
y = [0,1,2,3,4.5]

Not good xticks

In [3]:

plt.plot(x,y,'o-')
plt.show()

Better xticks

In [4]:

plt.plot(x,y,'o-')
plt.xticks(x,x)
plt.yticks(y,y)
plt.show()

in "ax" style:

In [5]:

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x,y,'o-')
ax.set_xticks(x)
ax.set_yticks(y)
plt.show()