set label axis matplotlib code example

Example 1: set axis labels python

# Basic syntax:
plt.xlabel("X axis label") # Add ", fontsize = #" to control fontsize
plt.ylabel("Y axis label")

# Example usage:
plt.plot(range(5))
plt.xlabel("X axis label")
plt.ylabel("Y axis label")
plt.title("Figure title", fontsize = 20)

# Note, xlabel and ylabel come from matplotlib.pyplot and plt is an 
# 	abbreviation for this, e.g. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Example 2: changing axis labels matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

labels = [item.get_text() for item in ax.get_xticklabels()]
labels[1] = 'Testing'

ax.set_xticklabels(labels)