AxisLabels

class aplpy.AxisLabels(parent)

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

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.

Parameters:

family : str, 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.

style : str, optional

The font style. This can be ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or ‘oblique’.

variant : str, optional

The font variant. This can be ‘normal’ or ‘small-caps’

stretch : str 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’.

weight : str 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’.

size : str 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.

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.