René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Log-scale ignores Formatter","articleBody":"### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\nLogarithmic scaling seems to break the label formatting.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nfrom matplotlib import ticker\r\nimport numpy as np\r\n\r\n\r\np = np.linspace(1000, 500, 100)\r\nT = np.linspace(300, 200, p.size)\r\n\r\n\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\nax.plot(T, p)\r\nax.set_yscale('log')\r\nax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.StrMethodFormatter('{x:.3f}'))\r\n\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\nThe issue is reproducible using different Formatters (e.g. FuncFormatter, ...).\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n![outcome](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9482218/25221317/f9b428ca-25b4-11e7-850d-e5f85b0740df.png)\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\nI would expect the axis to use the passed Formatter like the linear scaled axis does:\r\n\r\n![expected](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9482218/25221359/28c1cab4-25b5-11e7-940e-eae03f5b86da.png)\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n  * Operating System: macOS Sierra (10.12.4) | Debian GNU/Linux 8.6\r\n  * Matplotlib Version: 2.0.0 \r\n  * Python Version: 3.6.1\r\n\r\nMatplotlib was installed from the conda-forge channel.\r\n\r\nThanks for your great work!\r\n\r\n/Lukas","author":{"url":"https://github.com/lkluft","@type":"Person","name":"lkluft"},"datePublished":"2017-04-20T08:41:38.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/8517/matplotlib/issues/8517"}