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zhuser
zhuser

Reputation: 21

What is the difference between a Text instance and string in python?

I am trying to use matplotlib module to plot date vs. some values. I'd like to make some changes to the ticklables of the x_axis and to do that I am using the xaxis.get_ticklables(). As the matplotlib Artist tutorial says this function gives a list of Text instances. Now the question is, what is a Text instance and is there any way I can convert a Text instance to strings or numbers?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1478

Answers (1)

Mike Müller
Mike Müller

Reputation: 85432

You can get the text, i.e. the string, for all tick labels with:

label_texts = [label.get_text() for label in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()]

A tick label is rich matplotlib object with many ttributes:

>>> tick_label = ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()[0]
>>> len(dir(tick_label))
213

Type:

>>> dir(tick_label)

to see their names.

Upvotes: 1

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