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Rotating custom tick labels in Matplotlib
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To rotate custom tick labels in Matplotlib we can leverage the set_xticklabels(~) method:
x = [1,2,3,4]y = [3,4,5,6]
#Specifying our custom tick labelsx_labels = ["My tick label %i" % i for i in range(len(y))]plt.plot(x,y, 'o-')
ax = plt.gca()ax.set_xticks(x)
#Rotating our custom tick labelsax.set_xticklabels(x_labels, rotation=40, ha="right")plt.show()
The ha parameter, which stands for horizontal alignment, ensures that the tick labels are right-aligned to the ticks.
The output is as follows:
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