> I I would like to have numbers expressed in scientific notation in > legend annotations. Does anybody know how to do that? >
Not sure why legend annotations makes the problem different, but perhaps this is a start: $ python3 Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Jun 11 2011, 10:38:04) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print("{:e}".format(1000)) 1.000000e+03 http://docs.python.org/library/string.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list