ax.get_xaxis().get_minorticklabels() always returns list of empty strings #13968
Description
Bug report
Bug summary
ax.get_xaxis().get_minorticklabels() always returns list of empty strings.
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_xscale('log')
ax.set_yscale('log')
ax.set_xlim([2e-2, 2e-1])
ax.set_ylim([2e+1, 2e+3])
ax.plot([0.02, 0.1, 0.2], [20, 1000, 2000])
ax.get_xaxis().set_major_formatter(matplotlib.ticker.ScalarFormatter())
ax.get_xaxis().set_minor_formatter(matplotlib.ticker.ScalarFormatter())
fig.canvas.draw()
print([item.get_text() for item in ax.get_xaxis().get_minorticklabels()])
plt.show()Actual outcome
['', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '']
Expected outcome
['0.00', '0.00', '0.00', '0.01', '0.01', '0.01', '0.01', '0.01', '0.02', '0.03', '0.04', '0.05', '0.06', '0.07', '0.08', '0.09', '0.20', '0.30', '0.40', '0.50', '0.60', '0.70', '0.80', '0.90', '2.00', '3.00', '4.00', '5.00', '6.00', '7.00', '8.00', '9.00', '20.00', '30.00', '40.00', '50.00', '60.00', '70.00', '80.00', '90.00']Matplotlib version
- Operating system: macOS Mojave 10.14.4
- Matplotlib version: 3.0.3
- Matplotlib backend (
print(matplotlib.get_backend())):MacOSX - Python version: 3.7.3
Python installed using homebrew, matplotlib using pip.