Re: [Matplotlib-users] A pie chart with rotated text labels

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Monday, September 24, 2012, Martin Mokrejs wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have pie charts with relatively long texts assigned to each slice of
> the pie.
> The text is drawn horizontally. Instead, I would like to have it rotated
> at the
> same angle as the slice itself (i.e. centered at the "axis" of the slice).
> In this
> way the text would not overlap other text of adjacent slices (or at least
> if the
> text starts far enough from the pie).
>
> The example below is a bit over-twisted but I really want to be able to
> read at
> least a portion of those ['my text4', 'my text5', 'my text6', 'my text7']
> legends.
>
>
Hmmm, this might be a decent feature to add to pie().  Although, I wonder
if a legend would better suit your needs?

Ben Root