How do I format axis number format to thousands with a comma in matplotlib?

How can I change the format of the numbers in the x-axis to be like 10,000 instead of 10000? Ideally, I would just like to do something like this:

x = format((10000.21, 22000.32, 10120.54), "#,###")

Here is the code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# create figure instance
fig1 = plt.figure(1)
fig1.set_figheight(15)
fig1.set_figwidth(20)

ax = fig1.add_subplot(2,1,1)

x = 10000.21, 22000.32, 10120.54

y = 1, 4, 15
ax.plot(x, y)

ax2 = fig1.add_subplot(2,1,2)

x2 = 10434, 24444, 31234
y2 = 1, 4, 9
ax2.plot(x2, y2)

fig1.show()

Use , as format specifier:

>>> format(10000.21, ',')
'10,000.21'

Alternatively you can also use str.format instead of format:

>>> '{:,}'.format(10000.21)
'10,000.21'

With matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter:

...
ax.get_xaxis().set_major_formatter(
    matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter(lambda x, p: format(int(x), ',')))
ax2.get_xaxis().set_major_formatter(
    matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter(lambda x, p: format(int(x), ',')))
fig1.show()

The best way I've found to do this is with StrMethodFormatter:

import matplotlib as mpl
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(mpl.ticker.StrMethodFormatter('{x:,.0f}'))

For example:

import pandas as pd
import requests
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mpl

url = 'https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/histoday?fsym=BTC&tsym=USDT&aggregate=1'
df = pd.DataFrame({'BTC/USD': [d['close'] for d in requests.get(url).json()['Data']]})

ax = df.plot()
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(mpl.ticker.StrMethodFormatter('{x:,.0f}'))
plt.show()

I always find myself on this same page everytime I try to do this. Sure, the other answers get the job done, but aren't easy to remember for next time! ex: import ticker and use lambda, custom def, etc.

Here's a simple solution if you have an axes named ax:

ax.set_yticklabels(['{:,}'.format(int(x)) for x in ax.get_yticks().tolist()])