x axis labels max width

Question

Is there any way I can set up a max width for the labels on the x axis? I have long labels and they're overlapping so I'd like to split a single label in multiple rows. This is how I'm setting labels right now:

    plt.plot(
        [point['label'] for point in data],
        [point['value'] for point in data],
        color=Colors.success,
        marker='o',
        linewidth=1,
        markersize=5,
    )

What about rotating them? [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10998621/rotate-axis-text-in-python-matplotlib) — Perplexabot, Mar 20 '19 at 18:45

mujjiga · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-20T19:30:57.127

plt.plot([0,10],[0,2])
plt.xticks(np.arange(11),["\n".join("27 Nov 1982".split())]*11)

If your labels are multi words then you can split them with "\n" so that each word of a label appears on a different line.

When the labels are very long strings (not words) then the best way is to rotate them. If for some reasons you don't want to rotate, the other (ugly) way is to split the long string at every n characters into a different row (where n=4 in below example).

labels = ["verylongname{0}".format(i) for i in range(11)]
plt.plot([0,10],[0,2])
plt.xticks(np.arange(11),["\n".join([word[i:i+4] for i in range(0, len(word), 4)]) for word in labels])

the \n trick should do it for my needs. I also shrank the label size a bit — Mihai Zamfir, Mar 20 '19 at 20:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '19 at 18:55

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You can set the labels on the x axis:

#Every n-th label
positions = np.arange(0,len(point),n)
labels = [point['label'] for point in data][::n]
plt.xticks(positions,labels)

You can rotate them as well.

answered Mar 20 '19 at 18:55

Ardweaden

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