First of all, unless you're displaying multiple images (with aspect), there is not much of benefit of using axes_grid toolkit. So I strongly recommend you to stick to subplot.
axes_grid toolkit uses different kind of artists to draw ticklabels. Therefore, most of the matplotlib command that try to change the properties of the ticklabels does not work. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/axislines.html You may recover the original matplotlib behavior, but some of the feature in axes_grid toolkit won't work. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#axisline axes_grid way of rotating ticklabels is ax.axis["bottom"].major_ticklabels.set_rotation(90) But, you may want to fiddle with other properties also. ax.axis["bottom"].major_ticklabels.set_va("top") ax.axis["bottom"].major_tick_pad = -8 Anyhow, I must admit that handling of ticklabels in axes_grid toolkit is a bit messy currently. And I hope to improve it soon. Regards, -JJ On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, <phob...@geosyntec.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm trying to make some bar plots using AxesGrid and the set_xlabels method > doesn't seem to notice that I'm passing a 'rotation' kwarg. > > Here's a small script that showing that this doesn't work: > # ------------------------------------------ > import matplotlib.pyplot as pl > from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid import AxesGrid > > fig = pl.figure() > grid = AxesGrid(fig, 111, nrows_ncols=(1,1), axes_pad=0.12) > xlabs = ['paul', 'chris', 'patti'] > > for ax in grid: > ax.plot([1,2,3], [2,2.5,3], 'bo') > ax.set_ylim([0,5]) > ax.set_xlim([0,4]) > ax.set_xticks([1,2,3]) > ax.set_xticklabels(xlabs, rotation=90) > # ----------------------------------------- > > As you can see from the attached image, my labels aren't rotating. This is > obviously a trivial example, but I'm trying to plot some chemical > concentrations and the names are quite long. > > Any tips? Should I just be using subpolot instead? > > Python 2.6.2 and: > In [25]: import matplotlib as mpl > In [26]: mpl.__version__ > Out[26]: '0.99.1' > In [27]: import numpy as np > In [28]: np.__version__ > Out[28]: '1.3.0' > > Thanks! > > Paul M. Hobson > Senior Staff Engineer > -- > Geosyntec Consultants > 55 SW Yamhill St, Ste 200 > Portland, OR 97204 > Phone: (503) 222-9518 > www.geosyntec.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
