bokeh.models.formatters

Models for controlling the text and visual formatting of tick labels on Bokeh plot axes.

class BasicTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Display tick values from continuous ranges as “basic numbers”, using scientific notation when appropriate by default.

power_limit_high

property type: power_limit_high:Int

Limit the use of scientific notation to when:

log(x) >= power_limit_high
power_limit_low

property type: power_limit_low:Int

Limit the use of scientific notation to when:

log(x) <= power_limit_low
precision

property type: precision:Either(Auto, Int)

How many digits of precision to display in tick labels.

use_scientific

property type: use_scientific:Bool

Whether to ever display scientific notation. If True, then when to use scientific notation is controlled by power_limit_low and power_limit_high.

JSON Prototype
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  "id": "94e8fd34-62a4-4886-ad84-3d335773b93c",
  "name": null,
  "power_limit_high": 5,
  "power_limit_low": -3,
  "precision": "auto",
  "tags": [],
  "use_scientific": true
}
class CategoricalTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Display tick values from categorical ranges as string values.

JSON Prototype
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  "id": "16dd5bda-06ff-4dc8-a73c-14ffb5fe941c",
  "name": null,
  "tags": []
}
class DatetimeTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Display tick values from a continuous range as formatted datetimes.

formats

property type: formats:Dict(Enum(‘microseconds’, ‘milliseconds’, ‘seconds’, ‘minsec’, ‘minutes’, ‘hourmin’, ‘hours’, ‘days’, ‘months’, ‘years’), List(String))

User defined formats for displaying datetime values.

The enum values correspond roughly to different “time scales”. The corresponding value is a list of strftime formats to use for formatting datetime tick values that fall in in that “time scale”.

By default, only the first format string passed for each time scale will be used. By default, all leading zeros are stripped away from the formatted labels. These behaviors cannot be changed as of now.

An example of specifying the same date format over a range of time scales:

DatetimeTickFormatter(
    formats=dict(
        hours=["%B %Y"],
        days=["%B %Y"],
        months=["%B %Y"],
        years=["%B %Y"],
    )
)

This list of supported strftime formats is reproduced below.

Warning

The client library BokehJS uses the timezone library to format datetimes. The inclusion of the list below is based on the claim that timezone makes to support “the full compliment of GNU date format specifiers.” However, this claim has not been tested exhaustively against this list. If you find formats that do not function as expected, please submit a github issue, so that the documentation can be updated appropriately.

%a
The abbreviated name of the day of the week according to the current locale.
%A
The full name of the day of the week according to the current locale.
%b
The abbreviated month name according to the current locale.
%B
The full month name according to the current locale.
%c
The preferred date and time representation for the current locale.
%C
The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer.
%d
The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).
%D
Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Americans should note that in many other countries %d/%m/%y is rather common. This means that in international context this format is ambiguous and should not be used.)
%e
Like %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space.
%f
Microsecond as a decimal number, zero-padded on the left (range 000000-999999). This is an extension to the set of directives available to timezone.
%F
Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format).
%G
The ISO 8601 week-based year with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.
%g
Like %G, but without century, that is, with a 2-digit year (00-99).
%h
Equivalent to %b.
%H
The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23).
%I
The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12).
%j
The day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366).
%k
The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to 23). Single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.)
%l
The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to 12). Single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.) (TZ)
%m
The month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).
%M
The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).
%n
A newline character. Bokeh text does not currently support newline characters.
%N
Nanosecond as a decimal number, zero-padded on the left (range 000000000-999999999). Supports a padding width specifier, i.e. %3N displays 3 leftmost digits. However, this is only accurate to the millisecond level of precision due to limitations of timezone.
%p
Either “AM” or “PM” according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale. Noon is treated as “PM” and midnight as “AM”.
%P
Like %p but in lowercase: “am” or “pm” or a corresponding string for the current locale.
%r
The time in a.m. or p.m. notation. In the POSIX locale this is equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p.
%R
The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). For a version including the seconds, see %T below.
%s
The number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).
%S
The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60). (The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
%t
A tab character. Bokeh text does not currently support tab characters.
%T
The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S).
%u
The day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday being 1. See also %w.
%U
The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of week 01. See also %V and %W.
%V
The ISO 8601 week number (see NOTES) of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the new year. See also %U and %W.
%w
The day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday being 0. See also %u.
%W
The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first day of week 01.
%x
The preferred date representation for the current locale without the time.
%X
The preferred time representation for the current locale without the date.
%y
The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99).
%Y
The year as a decimal number including the century.
%z
The +hhmm or -hhmm numeric timezone (that is, the hour and minute offset from UTC).
%Z
The timezone name or abbreviation.
%%
A literal ‘%’ character.
JSON Prototype
{
  "formats": {},
  "id": "8eea4234-bf9f-48f8-b661-5568a6a30664",
  "name": null,
  "tags": []
}
class LogTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Display tick values from continuous ranges as powers of some base.

Most often useful in conjunction with a LogTicker.

ticker

property type: ticker:Instance(Ticker)

The corresponding LogTicker, used to determine the correct base to use. If unset, the formatter will use base 10 as a default.

JSON Prototype
{
  "id": "e2a0820c-7f70-49b1-8038-f55cd4e5ecb3",
  "name": null,
  "tags": [],
  "ticker": null
}
class NumeralTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Tick formatter based on a human-readable format string.

format

property type: format:String

The number format, as defined in the following tables:

NUMBERS:

Number Format String
10000 ‘0,0.0000’ 10,000.0000
10000.23 ‘0,0’ 10,000
10000.23 ‘+0,0’ +10,000
-10000 ‘0,0.0’ -10,000.0
10000.1234 ‘0.000’ 10000.123
10000.1234 ‘0[.]00000’ 10000.12340
-10000 ‘(0,0.0000)’ (10,000.0000)
-0.23 ‘.00’ -.23
-0.23 ‘(.00)’ (.23)
0.23 ‘0.00000’ 0.23000
0.23 ‘0.0[0000]’ 0.23
1230974 ‘0.0a’ 1.2m
1460 ‘0 a’ 1 k
-104000 ‘0a’ -104k
1 ‘0o’ 1st
52 ‘0o’ 52nd
23 ‘0o’ 23rd
100 ‘0o’ 100th

CURRENCY:

Number Format String
1000.234 ‘$0,0.00’ $1,000.23
1000.2 ‘0,0[.]00 $’ 1,000.20 $
1001 ‘$ 0,0[.]00’ $ 1,001
-1000.234 ‘($0,0)’ ($1,000)
-1000.234 ‘$0.00’ -$1000.23
1230974 ‘($ 0.00 a)’ $ 1.23 m

BYTES:

Number Format String
100 ‘0b’ 100B
2048 ‘0 b’ 2 KB
7884486213 ‘0.0b’ 7.3GB
3467479682787 ‘0.000 b’ 3.154 TB

PERCENTAGES:

Number Format String
1 ‘0%’ 100%
0.974878234 ‘0.000%’ 97.488%
-0.43 ‘0 %’ -43 %
0.43 ‘(0.000 %)’ 43.000 %

TIME:

Number Format String
25 ‘00:00:00’ 0:00:25
238 ‘00:00:00’ 0:03:58
63846 ‘00:00:00’ 17:44:06
language

property type: language:Enum(‘be-nl’, ‘chs’, ‘cs’, ‘da-dk’, ‘de-ch’, ‘de’, ‘en’, ‘en-gb’, ‘es-ES’, ‘es’, ‘et’, ‘fi’, ‘fr-CA’, ‘fr-ch’, ‘fr’, ‘hu’, ‘it’, ‘ja’, ‘nl-nl’, ‘pl’, ‘pt-br’, ‘pt-pt’, ‘ru’, ‘ru-UA’, ‘sk’, ‘th’, ‘tr’, ‘uk-UA’)

The language to use for formatting language-specific features (e.g. thousands separator).

rounding

property type: rounding:Enum(‘round’, ‘nearest’, ‘floor’, ‘rounddown’, ‘ceil’, ‘roundup’)

Rounding functions (round, floor, ceil) and their synonyms (nearest, rounddown, roundup).

JSON Prototype
{
  "format": "0,0",
  "id": "41bc4b18-2fff-4de3-b65d-164da1b6c42d",
  "language": "en",
  "name": null,
  "rounding": "round",
  "tags": []
}
class PrintfTickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.models.formatters.TickFormatter

Tick formatter based on a printf-style format string.

format

property type: format:String

The number format, as defined as follows: the placeholder in the format string is marked by % and is followed by one or more of these elements, in this order:

  • An optional + sign

    Causes the result to be preceded with a plus or minus sign on numeric values. By default, only the - sign is used on negative numbers.

  • An optional padding specifier

    Specifies what (if any) character to use for padding. Possible values are 0 or any other character preceded by a ' (single quote). The default is to pad with spaces.

  • An optional - sign

    Causes sprintf to left-align the result of this placeholder. The default is to right-align the result.

  • An optional number

    Specifies how many characters the result should have. If the value to be returned is shorter than this number, the result will be padded.

  • An optional precision modifier

    Consists of a . (dot) followed by a number, specifies how many digits should be displayed for floating point numbers. When used on a string, it causes the result to be truncated.

  • A type specifier

    Can be any of:

    • % — yields a literal % character
    • b — yields an integer as a binary number
    • c — yields an integer as the character with that ASCII value
    • d or i — yields an integer as a signed decimal number
    • e — yields a float using scientific notation
    • u — yields an integer as an unsigned decimal number
    • f — yields a float as is
    • o — yields an integer as an octal number
    • s — yields a string as is
    • x — yields an integer as a hexadecimal number (lower-case)
    • X — yields an integer as a hexadecimal number (upper-case)
JSON Prototype
{
  "format": "%s",
  "id": "f3614c94-c81f-490f-9f30-783eb134e533",
  "name": null,
  "tags": []
}
class TickFormatter(**kwargs)

Bases: bokeh.model.Model

A base class for all tick formatter types. TickFormatter is not generally useful to instantiate on its own.

JSON Prototype
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  "id": "f66c6cc4-817d-4a33-bd4e-db0c02942a0a",
  "name": null,
  "tags": []
}