Bug report

EDIT:
I figured out it's due to the standard set as the option 'linscalex'.
Good addition would be force entry of linscalex when using symlog or throw a flag that linscalex is applied.
/EDIT

setting xscale to symlog produces a different graph than setting it to log

deffunc(a):returna**2*np.exp(a)alpha=np.linspace(1,10,1000)plt.plot(alpha,1e5*func(a=alpha))axes=plt.gca()axes.set_yscale('log')axes.set_xscale('symlog')plt.xlim(1,10)plt.title('symlog')plt.show()plt.plot(alpha,1e5*func(a=alpha))axes=plt.gca()axes.set_yscale('log')axes.set_xscale('log')plt.xlim(1,10)plt.title('log')plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

I expect this to show what I see when I plot 'log'.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: MAC OS X, reproduced on Ubuntu 16.04, too
• Matplotlib version: 3.1.0
• Python version: 3.7
• Jupyter version (if applicable): 5.6.8