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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Cleanup API for setting ticks","articleBody":"Inspired by https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/14980#issuecomment-518156902.\r\n\r\nCurrent APIs:\r\n\r\n~~~\r\npyplot.xticks(ticks=None, labels=None, **kwargs)\r\n\r\nAxes.set_xticks(self, ticks, minor=False)\r\nAxes.set_xticklabels(self, labels, fontdict=None, minor=False, **kwargs)\r\n~~~\r\n\r\nNotes:\r\n- The `Axes` methods are just thin wrappers around the `Axis` methods.\r\n- The kwargs are `Text` properties.\r\n\r\n### Issue\r\nThe Axes API feels a bit odd. AFAICS `set_xticklabels` does not make much sense without `set_xticks` before; otherwise how do I know that the labels will be at the correct places and that I have the right number of labels for the ticks.\r\n\r\n### Proposal\r\n1. [x] Extend the API of `set_xticks` to be\r\n   ~~~\r\n   Axes.set_xticks(self, ticks, labels=None, minor=False, **kwargs)\r\n   ~~~\r\n   maybe even with `ticks=None` to be compatible with the pyplot API - though I don't know if one needs the ability to set ticks without positions.\r\n2. [x] Soft-deprecate `set_xticklabels`. It's too widely used to be deprecated, but we shouldn't  have two equal ways here.\r\n3. [ ] Optionally add the minor kwarg to `pyplot.xticks`; it's not strictly necessary because pyplot may have less functionality than the OOP interface; but it doesn't hurt either.\r\n\r\nThe proposed signature would be an API-change because the minor argument might have been passed positionally. Thus, we should start with `_make_keyword_only` on that parameter.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2019-08-07T23:53:17.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":15},"url":"https://github.com/15005/matplotlib/issues/15005"}