René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"set_scale and set_xscale","articleBody":"These two method calls should perform the same log scaling action. However, the output from xaxis.set_scale('log') behaves differently. See the attached figures for the difference. I am guessing yaxis counterparts behave the same way.\n\n```\nfig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5))\nax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)\nax1.plot(np.random.randn(100))\n\nax1.xaxis.set_scale('log')\nax1.set_xscale('log')\n\nplt.matplotlib.__version__ \n'1.3.x'\n```\n\n![figure_1](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/792252/317965/bbd23994-9886-11e2-9cf1-e7273a3f910f.png)\n\n![figure_2](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/792252/317970/cb0ab670-9886-11e2-8c3f-6b2fdf1ec425.png)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/gsever","@type":"Person","name":"gsever"},"datePublished":"2013-03-29T15:39:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/1871/matplotlib/issues/1871"}