pythonmatplotlibxticks

Increase spacing between points on x-axis

I'm looking for a way to prevent labels from overlapping. While searching through Stackoverflow I couldn't even find any suggestion on how to control x-axis spacing.

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        matplotlib.pyplot.xticks(x, xticks, rotation=90)
        matplotlib.pyplot.plot(x, y)
        matplotlib.pyplot.bar(x, y, alpha=0.2)

        matplotlib.pyplot.title(
            f"średnia cena produktu {self.identifier}, według kontrahentów")
        matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel("kontrahent")
        matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel("cena")


        matplotlib.pyplot.tight_layout()

        matplotlib.pyplot.savefig(os.path.join(
            "products", self.identifier, "wykres.png"))
        matplotlib.pyplot.close()
Solution

  • Firstly, it's hard to know exactly what's happening without your data, so I had to create dummy data and adjust for your variables, self.identifier and xticks, given that we don't know what those are.

    That being said, the function you're looking for is

    plt.tick_params(axis='x', which='major', labelsize=__)

    as seen in the code below:

    import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#make dummy data
x=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40]
y=np.random.rand(len(x))

plt.figure()
plt.plot(x, y)
plt.bar(x, y, alpha=0.2)
plt.title(f"średnia cena produktu, według kontrahentów")
plt.xlabel("kontrahent")
plt.ylabel("cena")
plt.xticks(x, [str(i) for i in y], rotation=90)

#set parameters for tick labels
plt.tick_params(axis='x', which='major', labelsize=3)

plt.tight_layout()