Merge pull request #9633 from tacaswell/fix_labelrotation

dstansby · web-flow · commit 9527ba5ac7e5 · 2017-10-31T09:08:52.000Z
FIX: make labelrotation work as kwarg to tick_params as documented
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axis.py b/lib/matplotlib/axis.py
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ def _translate_tick_kw(kw, to_init_kw=True):
                    'tick1On', 'tick2On', 'label1On', 'label2On']
         kwkeys1 = ['length', 'direction', 'left', 'bottom', 'right', 'top',
                    'labelleft', 'labelbottom', 'labelright', 'labeltop',
-                   'rotation']
+                   'labelrotation']
         kwkeys = kwkeys0 + kwkeys1
         kwtrans = dict()
         if to_init_kw:
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_axes.py
@@ -5201,15 +5201,23 @@ def test_bar_color_cycle():
 
 
 def test_tick_param_label_rotation():
-    fix, ax = plt.subplots()
-    plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1])
+    fix, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2)
+    ax.plot([0, 1], [0, 1])
+    ax2.plot([0, 1], [0, 1])
     ax.xaxis.set_tick_params(which='both', rotation=75)
     ax.yaxis.set_tick_params(which='both', rotation=90)
     for text in ax.get_xticklabels(which='both'):
         assert text.get_rotation() == 75
     for text in ax.get_yticklabels(which='both'):
         assert text.get_rotation() == 90
 
+    ax2.tick_params(axis='x', labelrotation=53)
+    ax2.tick_params(axis='y', rotation=35)
+    for text in ax2.get_xticklabels(which='major'):
+        assert text.get_rotation() == 53
+    for text in ax2.get_yticklabels(which='major'):
+        assert text.get_rotation() == 35
+
 
 @pytest.mark.style('default')
 def test_fillbetween_cycle():
