A quesstion with matplotlib

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Dear all,

I have a quesstion about change the width of the ylabel.You know the width of the ylabel is relaete to the x axi,how can i change the width of the ylabel not depend on the width of the x-axis?

Thank you!

George

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2010/12/31 余亮罡 <nuptyu@…572…>

Dear all,

I have a quesstion about change the width of the ylabel.You know the width of the ylabel is relaete to the x axi,how can i change the width of the ylabel not depend on the width of the x-axis?

Thank you!

George

Maybe I am not understanding. The height of the y-axis label text (which is then rotated 90 degrees) is dependent upon the font size, and should already be completely independent of the x-axis. Can you show some examples of what you mean?

Ben Root

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Hi Ben:
I just do not know how to change the font size,could you tell me that? Thank you !

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At 2011-01-01 07:08:23，“Benjamin Root” <ben.root@…553…> wrote:

2010/12/31 余亮罡 <nuptyu@…572…>

Dear all,

I have a quesstion about change the width of the ylabel.You know the width of the ylabel is relaete to the x axi,how can i change the width of the ylabel not depend on the width of the x-axis?

Thank you!

George

Maybe I am not understanding. The height of the y-axis label text (which is then rotated 90 degrees) is dependent upon the font size, and should already be completely independent of the x-axis. Can you show some examples of what you mean?

Ben Root

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余亮罡, on 2011-01-03 13:31, wrote:

I just do not know how to change the font size,could you tell
me that? Thank you !

Here's a small example. You can either keep around the ylabel
from when you first create it:

  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  lbl = plt.ylabel("foo")
  lbl.set_size(25)

If you already have the labels on an axes:

  ax = plt.gca()
  lbl = ax.yaxis.get_label()
  lbl.set_size('x-small')

Note that ax.get_ylabel() only gets you the string of the
label, which is why you have to use ax.yaxis.get_label() to get
an instance of the matplotlib.text.Text object in order to change
its size.

hope that helps,

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