mpl_toolkits.axisartist.axis_artist.AxisLabel

class mpl_toolkits.axisartist.axis_artist.AxisLabel(*kl, **kwargs)

Axis Label. Derived from Text. The position of the text is updated in the fly, so changing text position has no effect. Otherwise, the properties can be changed as a normal Text.

To change the pad between ticklabels and axis label, use set_pad.

draw(renderer)

Draws the Text object to the given renderer.

get_color()

Return the color of the text

get_pad()

return pad in points. See set_pad for more details.

get_ref_artist()

get_text()

Get the text as string

get_window_extent(renderer)

Return a Bbox object bounding the text, in display units.

In addition to being used internally, this is useful for specifying clickable regions in a png file on a web page.

renderer defaults to the _renderer attribute of the text object. This is not assigned until the first execution of draw(), so you must use this kwarg if you want to call get_window_extent() prior to the first draw(). For getting web page regions, it is simpler to call the method after saving the figure.

dpi defaults to self.figure.dpi; the renderer dpi is irrelevant. For the web application, if figure.dpi is not the value used when saving the figure, then the value that was used must be specified as the dpi argument.

set_axis_direction(d)

Adjust the text angle and text alignment of axis label according to the matplotlib convention.

property	left	bottom	right	top
axislabel angle	180	0	0	180
axislabel va	center	top	center	bottom
axislabel ha	right	center	right	center

Note that the text angles are actually relative to (90 + angle of the direction to the ticklabel), which gives 0 for bottom axis.

set_default_alignment(d)

set_default_angle(d)

set_pad(pad)

Set the pad in points. Note that the actual pad will be the sum of the internal pad and the external pad (that are set automatically by the AxisArtist), and it only set the internal pad