Bug summary

Rectilinear axes locators adjust the number of ticks to the physical size of the axes (via axis.get_tick_space()), so that tick labels don't overlap one another (at least under reasonable assumptions of label length). On polar axes, at least the radial ticks are not adjusted in the same way.

Code for reproduction

from pylab import *
subplot(121).set_xlim(0, .2)
subplot(122, projection="polar").set_rlim(0, .2)
show()

Actual outcome

The radial ticklabels completely overlap one another.

Expected outcome

Fewer radial tick(labels).

Additional information

No response

Operating system

fedora37

Matplotlib Version

3.7.0.dev1049+gafa863301c

Matplotlib Backend

qtagg

Python version

3.10

Jupyter version

ENOSUCHLIB

Installation

git checkout