I am trying to create bar graphs of letter frequency in Python. I thought the best way to accomplish this would be matplotlib, but I have been unable to decipher the documen
Sure is! You just need to reset the tick labels.
EDIT with answer and picture (can be done similarly with hist
):
x = scipy.arange(4)
y = scipy.array([4,7,6,5])
f = pylab.figure()
ax = f.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8])
ax.bar(x, y, align='center')
ax.set_xticks(x)
ax.set_xticklabels(['Aye', 'Bee', 'Cee', 'Dee'])
f.show()
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