What is the pyplot synonym for ax.get_xaxis?

Question

I am trying to use ax.get_xaxis for a logarithmic plot but I don't have axes. Instead I want to use a similar matplotlib.pyplot function to just use it on the current plot but I can't seem to find it online. What would it be?

Example:

plt.get_xaxis().set_major_formatter(matplotlib.ticker.ScalarFormatter())

Answer 1

ax = plt.gca() # get current axis

Now you have the axis.

(you can use similar logic with plt.gcf() to get the current figure)