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# Pyplot Scales

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    from matplotlib.ticker import NullFormatter  # useful for `logit` scale

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    # make up some data in the interval ]0, 1[
    y = np.random.normal(loc=0.5, scale=0.4, size=1000)
    y = y[(y > 0) & (y < 1)]
    y.sort()
    x = np.arange(len(y))

    # plot with various axes scales
    plt.figure(1)

    # linear
    plt.subplot(221)
    plt.plot(x, y)
    plt.yscale('linear')
    plt.title('linear')
    plt.grid(True)

    # log
    plt.subplot(222)
    plt.plot(x, y)
    plt.yscale('log')
    plt.title('log')
    plt.grid(True)

    # symmetric log
    plt.subplot(223)
    plt.plot(x, y - y.mean())
    plt.yscale('symlog', linthreshy=0.01)
    plt.title('symlog')
    plt.grid(True)

    # logit
    plt.subplot(224)
    plt.plot(x, y)
    plt.yscale('logit')
    plt.title('logit')
    plt.grid(True)
    # Format the minor tick labels of the y-axis into empty strings with
    # `NullFormatter`, to avoid cumbering the axis with too many labels.
    plt.gca().yaxis.set_minor_formatter(NullFormatter())
    # Adjust the subplot layout, because the logit one may take more space
    # than usual, due to y-tick labels like "1 - 10^{-3}"
    plt.subplots_adjust(top=0.92, bottom=0.08, left=0.10, right=0.95, hspace=0.25,
                        wspace=0.35)

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.096 seconds)

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