 <p>Set the offset vale false. Here is all the info you need. <a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/newscalarformatter_demo.html" rel="nofollow">Here is the tutorial link.</a></p> <pre><code>ax = plt.gca() ax.ticklabel_format(useOffset=False,useMathText=None) </code></pre> <p>Or as shown in the example, </p> <pre><code>from matplotlib.ticker import OldScalarFormatter gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter(useOffset=False)) gca().yaxis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter(useOffset=False)) </code></pre>