Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks

Question

Check the x axis of the figure below. How can I move the labels a bit to the left so that they align with their respective ticks?

I\'m rotating the labels using:

Answer 1

An easy, loop-free alternative is to use the horizontalalignment Text property as a keyword argument to xticks[1]. In the below, at the commented line, I've forced the xticks alignment to be "right".

n=5
x = np.arange(n)
y = np.sin(np.linspace(-3,3,n))
xlabels = ['Long ticklabel %i' % i for i in range(n)]
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x,y, 'o-')

plt.xticks(
        [0,1,2,3,4],
        ["this label extends way past the figure's left boundary",
        "bad motorfinger", "green", "in the age of octopus diplomacy", "x"], 
        rotation=45,
        horizontalalignment="right")    # here
plt.show()

(yticks already aligns the right edge with the tick by default, but for xticks the default appears to be "center".)

[1] You find that described in the xticks documentation if you search for the phrase "Text properties".