Rotating part of xticks

Question

On the x-axis, I would like to display numbers (with no rotation) with rotated names below each number. I have the following but would like to separately rotate the names 'one', 'two' and 'three'.

plt.xticks([1,2,3], ['1\n one', '2\n two', '3\n three'], rotation=45]

@Kevin: a very valid question, but I think it is save to assume that the OP uses *matplotlib* — hitzg, Oct 31 '14 at 13:12
Apologies, I should have included the line: `import matplotlib.pyplot as plt` — Alef, Nov 07 '14 at 12:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

You can place major and minor ticks at the same positions. Here is a minimum example:

import pylab as pl

pl.clf()
ax = pl.gca()
ax.set_xticks([1, 2, 3])
ax.set_xticks([1, 2, 3], minor=True)
ax.set_xticklabels(['one', 'two', 'three'], minor=True)
pl.setp(ax.xaxis.get_minorticklabels(), rotation=-45)

for t in ax.get_xticklabels(minor=True):
    t.set_y(-0.03)

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(With some inspiration from this answer.)

Rotating part of xticks

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