tick mark pad?

Hello, does anyone know how to change the tick mark padding

    > using WXAgg? I tried guessing the keyword like this:

    > # set label attributes setp(axes.get_yticklabels(),
    > pad=2)

    > But needless to say it didn't work out.

Probably the easiest way is to just set your rc parameters

  rcParams['tick.major.pad']
  rcParams['tick.minor.pad']

JDH