Re: [Matplotlib-users] Unable to alter properties of right axis labels

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "James" == James Boyle <bo...@ll...> writes:

    James> In the following code I attempt to plot right and left
    James> yaxis labels each with its own color. The left axis comes
    James> out OK - red, medium The right axis comes out the default.
    James> I have tried everything I could think of (admittedly not
    James> much) to alter any property of the right labels and have
    James> had no success - How do I alter the right axis label
    James> properties in the example below???  thanks for any help.

Hi Jim,

Avoiding for now the question of what the proper interface should be
for accessing the left and right (or top and bottom) tick properties
in general, here's a quick fix that will give you access to all of the
tick labels for a give axis

In matplotlib.axis.py, replace the get_ticklabels method with 

    def get_ticklabels(self):
        'Return a list of Text instances for ticklabels'
        labels1 = [tick.label1 for tick in self.get_major_ticks() if tick.label1On]
        labels2 = [tick.label2 for tick in self.get_major_ticks() if tick.label2On]
        return labels1+labels2

The current behavior was to just return the label1 instances (left for
xaxis, bottom for yaxis).

Perhaps the best solution is to add an optional arg to all the
get_tick* methods

    labels = ax.get_xticklabels()        # get all
    labels = ax.get_xticklabels('left')  # get left labels
    labels = ax.get_xticklabels('right') # get right labels

and so on for get_xticks, get_xticklines and the y and set* analogs.

JDH