python barplot_Matplotlib Python Barplot：xtick标签的位置在彼此之间有不规则的空格

I'm trying to do a bar plot for many countries and i want the names displayed a bit rotated underneath the bars.

The problem is that the spaces between the labels are irregular.

Here's the relevant code:

plt.bar(i, bar_height, align='center', label=country ,color=cm.jet(1.*counter/float( len(play_list))))

xticks_pos = scipy.arange( len( country_list)) +1

plt.xticks(xticks_pos ,country_list, rotation=45 )

Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks! For your Help.

Christian

解决方案

I think the problem is that the xtick label is aligned to the centre of the text, but when it is rotated you care about the end of it. As a side note, you can use the position of the bars to select the xtick positions which better handles gaps/uneven spacing.

Here's an example that uses a web resource for list of countries (use your own if you don't trust the arbitrary resource google found for me)

import urllib2

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# get a list of countries

website = "http://vbcity.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.61.18.99/Country-List.txt"

response = urllib2.urlopen(website)

page = response.read()

many_countries = page.split('\r\n')

# pick out a subset of them

n = 25

ind = np.random.randint(0, len(many_countries), 25)

country_list = [many_countries[i] for i in ind]

# some random heights for each of the bars.

heights = np.random.randint(3, 12, len(country_list))

plt.figure(1)

h = plt.bar(xrange(len(country_list)), heights, label=country_list)

plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.3)

xticks_pos = [0.65*patch.get_width() + patch.get_xy()[0] for patch in h]

plt.xticks(xticks_pos, country_list, ha='right', rotation=45)

and results in a bar chart whose labels are evenly spaced and rotated:

(your example doesn't give a hint as to what the colours mean so that's omitted here, but seems immaterial to the question anyway).