AxisLabels¶
- class aplpy.AxisLabels(parent)[source]¶
Bases:
object
Methods Summary
hide
()Hide the x- and y-axis labels.
hide_x
()Hide the x-axis label.
hide_y
()Hide the y-axis label.
set_font
(**kwargs)Set the font of the axis labels.
set_xpad
(pad)Set the x-axis label displacement in terms of the axis label font size.
set_xposition
(position)Set the position of the x-axis label ('top' or 'bottom')
set_xtext
(label)Set the x-axis label text.
set_ypad
(pad)Set the y-axis label displacement in terms of the axis label font size.
set_yposition
(position)Set the position of the y-axis label ('left' or 'right')
set_ytext
(label)Set the y-axis label text.
show
()Show the x- and y-axis labels.
show_x
()Show the x-axis label.
show_y
()Show the y-axis label.
Methods Documentation
- set_font(**kwargs)[source]¶
Set the font of the axis labels.
- Parameters
- familystr, optional
The family of the font to use. This can either be a generic font family name, either ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’, ‘cursive’, ‘fantasy’, or ‘monospace’, or a list of font names in decreasing order of priority.
- stylestr, optional
The font style. This can be ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or ‘oblique’.
- variantstr, optional
The font variant. This can be ‘normal’ or ‘small-caps’
- stretchstr or int or float, optional
The stretching (spacing between letters) for the font. This can either be a numeric value in the range 0-1000 or one of ‘ultra-condensed’, ‘extra-condensed’, ‘condensed’, ‘semi-condensed’, ‘normal’, ‘semi-expanded’, ‘expanded’, ‘extra-expanded’ or ‘ultra-expanded’.
- weightstr or int or float, optional
The weight (or boldness) of the font. This can either be a numeric value in the range 0-1000 or one of ‘ultralight’, ‘light’, ‘normal’, ‘regular’, ‘book’, ‘medium’, ‘roman’, ‘semibold’, ‘demibold’, ‘demi’, ‘bold’, ‘heavy’, ‘extra bold’, ‘black’.
- sizestr or int or float, optional
The size of the font. This can either be a numeric value (e.g. 12), giving the size in points, or one of ‘xx-small’, ‘x-small’, ‘small’, ‘medium’, ‘large’, ‘x-large’, or ‘xx-large’.
Notes
Default values are set by matplotlib or previously set values if set_font has already been called. Global default values can be set by editing the matplotlibrc file.