title: Matplotlib histogram, frequency as thousands
body: <p>I have a histogram I'm drawing in matplotlib with some 260,000 values or so.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that the frequency axis (y axis) on the histogram reaches high numbers such as 100,000... What I'd really like is to have the y labels as thousands, so instead of, for instance:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>100000</p>
    
    <p>75000</p>
    
    <p>50000</p>
    
    <p>25000</p>
    
    <p>0</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>To have this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>100</p>
    
    <p>75</p>
    
    <p>50</p>
    
    <p>25</p>
    
    <p>0</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And then I can simply change the y axis to "Frequency (000s)" -- it makes it much easier to read that way. Anyone with any ideas how that can be achieved?</p>