Modify tick label text

Question

I want to make some modifications to a few selected tick labels in a plot.

For example, if I do:

label = axes.yaxis.get_major_ticks()[2].label
label         


        

Answer 1

One can also do this with pylab and xticks

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [0,1,2]
y = [90,40,65]
labels = ['high', 'low', 37337]
plt.plot(x,y, 'r')
plt.xticks(x, labels, rotation='vertical')
plt.show()

http://matplotlib.org/examples/ticks_and_spines/ticklabels_demo_rotation.html