I have the example plot shown below. How can I make the first and third x-axis tick horizontal and the second and fourth tick vertical?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4] y = [1, 4, 9, 6] labels = ['Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Bogs', 'Slogs'] plt.plot(x, y) plt.xticks(x, labels, rotation='vertical') plt.margins(0.2) plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15) plt.show()
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Answer
Not sure if there is an automate way of doing it, but you can do it “manually” for each tick:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4] y = [1, 4, 9, 6] labels = ['Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Bogs', 'Slogs'] plt.plot(x, y) plt.xticks(x, labels, rotation='vertical') plt.margins(0.2) plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15) plt.show() # getting the labels from the axis ticks_labels = plt.gca().get_xticklabels() # rotating first and third ticks ticks_labels[0].set_rotation('horizontal') ticks_labels[2].set_rotation('horizontal')
Every item of the ticks_labels
list is a Text artist, so you can change pretty much everything (size, color, position, …)