Re: [matplotlib-devel] Re: method delegation in TextWithDash

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 3:44 am, Jouni K Seppanen wrote:
> John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:
> >     Jouni>     label: any string
> >     Jouni>     text: string
> >
> > a 'label' is a property of any matplotlib.artist.Artist (the base
> > class for Line2D, Patch, Text, etc), and is used to attach a string to
> > any object that renders into a figure (including the Figure itself).
> > This is most used for auto-legending
>
> Oh, of course. I was confused by the name "tick labels" for the text
> that accompanies tick marks.
>
> > matplotlib.text.Text.set_text, however, does set the to-be-rendered
> > string for the Text instance.
>
> It doesn't seem to work for tick labels. E.g.
>
>   gca().get_xticklabels()[0].set_text('foo')
>
> has no effect. This is quite understandable, since the text comes from
> a Formatter object. It might be a neat hack to have set_text('foo')
> automatically call set_xticklabels(['foo',...]).

I dont think that can work, since set_xticklabels(['foo',...]) makes its own 
call to set_text('foo').