How to remove relative shift in matplotlib axis

plot([1000, 1001, 1002], [1, 2, 3])
gca().get_xaxis().get_major_formatter().set_useOffset(False)
draw()

This grabs the current axes, gets the x-axis axis object and then the major formatter object and sets useOffset to false (doc).

In newer versions (1.4+) of matplotlib the default behavior can be changed via the axes.formatter.useoffset rcparam.

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