<spanid="sphx-glr-gallery-api-unicode-minus-py"></span><h1>Unicode minus<aclass="headerlink" href="#unicode-minus" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>You can use the proper typesetting Unicode minus (see
<aclass="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_sign#Plus_sign">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_sign#Plus_sign</a>) or the ASCII hyphen
for minus, which some people prefer. The matplotlibrc param
axes.unicode_minus controls the default behavior.</p>
<spanclass="c1"># Fixing random state for reproducibility</span>
<ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.random.seed.html#numpy.random.seed" title="View documentation for numpy.random.seed"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">random</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">seed</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="mi">19680801</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<ahref="../../api/matplotlib_configuration_api.html#matplotlib.rcParams" title="View documentation for matplotlib.rcParams"><spanclass="n">matplotlib</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">rcParams</span></a><spanclass="p">[</span><spanclass="s1">'axes.unicode_minus'</span><spanclass="p">]</span><spanclass="o">=</span><spanclass="bp">False</span>
<spanclass="n">fig</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">ax</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.subplots.html#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.subplots"><spanclass="n">plt</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">subplots</span></a><spanclass="p">()</span>
<spanclass="n">ax</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">plot</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="mi">10</span><spanclass="o">*</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.random.randn.html#numpy.random.randn" title="View documentation for numpy.random.randn"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">random</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">randn</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="mi">100</span><spanclass="p">),</span><spanclass="mi">10</span><spanclass="o">*</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.random.randn.html#numpy.random.randn" title="View documentation for numpy.random.randn"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">random</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">randn</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="mi">100</span><spanclass="p">),</span><spanclass="s1">'o'</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">ax</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">set_title</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="s1">'Using hyphen instead of Unicode minus'</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<ahref="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.show.html#matplotlib.pyplot.show" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.show"><spanclass="n">plt</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">show</span></a><spanclass="p">()</span>