Removing Axis Ticks' Relative Shift in Matplotlib

In Matplotlib, plotting against values with large ranges can result in axis ticks with shifts, introducing annotations such as " 1e3." To remove these shifts and obtain absolute tick values, follow these steps:

plot([1000, 1001, 1002], [1, 2, 3])

# Capture current axes and retrieve x-axis object
axes = gca()
x_axis = axes.get_xaxis()

# Disable tick offsets for major x-axis formatter
major_formatter = x_axis.get_major_formatter()
major_formatter.set_useOffset(False)

# Refresh plot
draw()

This approach disables the use of offsets in the major tick formatter, ensuring that absolute tick values are displayed. For newer Matplotlib versions (1.4 ), the rcparam axes.formatter.useoffset can be set to False to change the default behavior.