added kwarg support for xticks and yticks

jdh2358 · jdh2358 · commit cb5020778a38 · 2004-10-19T21:34:02.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=605
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 New entries should be added at the top
 
 ==============================================================
+2004-10-19 Added kwarg support to xticks and yticks to set ticklabel
+           text properties -- thanks to T. Edward Whalen for the suggestion
+
 2004-10-19 Added support for PIL images in imshow(), image.py - ADS
 
 2004-10-19 Re-worked exception handling in _image.py and _transforms.py
diff --git a/examples/arctest.py b/examples/arctest.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from matplotlib.matlab import *
 
 def f(t):
+    'a damped exponential'
     s1 = cos(2*pi*t)
     e1 = exp(-t)
     return multiply(s1,e1)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/matlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/matlab.py
@@ -1143,21 +1143,26 @@ def xticks(*args, **kwargs):
 
     # set the locations and labels of the xticks
     xticks( arange(5), ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Sally', 'Sue') )
-    
+
+    The keyword args, if any, are text properties; see text for more
+    information on text properties.  
     """
     ax = gca()
     
     if len(args)==0:
         locs = ax.get_xticks()
         labels = ax.get_xticklabels()
-
     elif len(args)==1:
         locs = ax.set_xticks(args[0])
         labels = ax.get_xticklabels()        
     elif len(args)==2:
         locs = ax.set_xticks(args[0])
-        labels = ax.set_xticklabels(args[1])
+        labels = ax.set_xticklabels(args[1], **kwargs)
     else: raise RuntimeError('Illegal number of arguments to xticks')
+    if len(kwargs):
+        for l in labels:
+            l.update_properties(kwargs)
+            
     draw_if_interactive()
     return locs, labels
 
@@ -1174,7 +1179,9 @@ def yticks(*args, **kwargs):
 
     # set the locations and labels of the yticks
     yticks( arange(5), ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Sally', 'Sue') )
-    
+
+    The keyword args, if any, are text properties; see text for more
+    information on text properties.  
     """
     ax = gca()
     
@@ -1186,9 +1193,14 @@ def yticks(*args, **kwargs):
         labels = ax.get_yticklabels()        
     elif len(args)==2:
         locs = ax.set_yticks(args[0])
-        labels = ax.set_yticklabels(args[1])
+        labels = ax.set_yticklabels(args[1], **kwargs)
     else: raise RuntimeError('Illegal number of arguments to yticks')
+    if len(kwargs):
+        for l in labels:
+            l.update_properties(kwargs)
+    
     draw_if_interactive()
+
     return locs, labels
 
 
