René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"setting x_scale symlog distorts graph","articleBody":"### Bug report\r\n\r\nEDIT:\r\nI figured out it's due to the standard set as the option 'linscalex'.\r\nGood addition would be force entry of linscalex when using symlog or throw a flag that linscalex is applied.\r\n/EDIT\r\n\r\nsetting xscale to symlog produces a different graph than setting it to log\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug.\r\nPlease make sure to minimize the number of dependencies required, and provide\r\nany necessary plotted data.\r\nAvoid using threads, as Matplotlib is (explicitly) not thread-safe.--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\n\r\ndef func(a):\r\n    return a**2*np.exp(a)\r\nalpha=np.linspace(1,10,1000)\r\nplt.plot(alpha,1e5*func(a=alpha))\r\naxes=plt.gca()\r\naxes.set_yscale('log')\r\naxes.set_xscale('symlog')\r\nplt.xlim(1,10)\r\nplt.title('symlog')\r\nplt.show()\r\n\r\nplt.plot(alpha,1e5*func(a=alpha))\r\naxes=plt.gca()\r\naxes.set_yscale('log')\r\naxes.set_xscale('log')\r\nplt.xlim(1,10)\r\nplt.title('log')\r\n\r\nplt.show()\r\n\r\n\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n![symlog](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/52042769/59918214-55291500-9424-11e9-9f31-2c5e47494655.png)\r\n\r\n![log](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/52042769/59918235-63773100-9424-11e9-86c6-cc6912d8a207.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\nI expect this to show what I see when I plot 'log'. \r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: MAC OS X, reproduced on Ubuntu 16.04, too\r\n  * Matplotlib version: 3.1.0\r\n  * Python version: 3.7\r\n  * Jupyter version (if applicable): 5.6.8\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pjkrauspe","@type":"Person","name":"pjkrauspe"},"datePublished":"2019-06-21T11:06:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/14597/matplotlib/issues/14597"}