René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Log scale tick labels are overlapping ","articleBody":"- Linux hypatia-pc 4.5.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.5.1-1 (2016-04-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux\n  \n  ```\n  lsb_release -a\n      No LSB modules are available.\n      Distributor ID: Debian\n      Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 (jessie)\n      Release:    8.4\n      Codename:   jessie\n  ```\n- matplotlib 1.5.2~rc2-1\n- Python 2.7.11+\n- installed using: `sudo apt-get install -t sid python matplotlibg`\n\nHere is an example where the problem appears:\n\n```\nfrom matplotlib.pyplot import *\nfigure( figsize=[4,3] )\nsubplot( 111, xscale='log' )\nplot( [1e-20,1e5], [1e-16,10] )\nshow()\n```\n\nFor lack of time the following image wasn't reproduced with the above example, but came from another problem:\n![loglabel-bugfix-reduced](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6842824/15871750/8236cfbc-2cf6-11e6-856a-c6faf803d052.png)\n\nThe right side shows the problem and the left side is my workaround which calculates some distance for a given amount of labels I want (here I wanted 5 labels or less). So it set every exponent, but every sixth integer exponent, i.e. -16,-10,-4.\n\nIt would be cool if it was fully automatic like with linear scales.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mxmlnkn","@type":"Person","name":"mxmlnkn"},"datePublished":"2016-06-07T19:28:57.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/6549/matplotlib/issues/6549"}