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

The axes class has a set_yticklabels function which allows you to set the tick labels, like so:

#ax is the axes instance
group_labels = ['control', 'cold treatment',
             'hot treatment', 'another treatment',
             'the last one']

ax.set_xticklabels(group_labels)

I'm still working on why your example above didn't work.