Bug in 0.83

I recently upgraded from 0.8 to 0.83 and now the x labels do

    > not rotate.
    ...snip...
    > When I revert back to 0.8 the labels are correctly
    > displayed. I use the following code for formatting the
    > xlabels:

Not sure why you are having trouble.
htdocs/screenshots/finance_work2.py is working for me with matplotlib
CVS, 0.83.2 and 0.83

Can you test the finance_work2.py example so at least we're working
with the same code? And since there were a few releases in the 0.83
series, it might help if you post the result of running your code with
the --verbose-helpful example so I know which bugfix release you are
working with. Here's what I get:

peds-pc311:~/python/projects/htdocs/screenshots> python
finance_work2.py -dTkAgg --verbose-helpful
matplotlib data path /usr/share/matplotlib
$HOME=/home/jdhunter
loaded rc file
/home/jdhunter/python/projects/htdocs/screenshots/matplotlibrc
matplotlib version 0.83
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
platform is linux2
numerix numarray 1.1.1
font search path ['/usr/share/matplotlib']
CONFIGDIR=/home/jdhunter/.matplotlib
loaded ttfcache file /home/jdhunter/.matplotlib/ttffont.cache
backend TkAgg version 8.4

JDH