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move x-axis label to top of figure in matplotlib

July 15th, 2011 by Lawrence David

to move your x-axis label to the top of the figure:

ax.xaxis.tick_top()

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2 Responses to “move x-axis label to top of figure in matplotlib”

1. on 11 Aug 2015 at 7:01 pm   Demis

   This moves the ticks only.
   To move the label as well, it looks like you need to do:
   `ax.xaxis.set_label_position(“top”)`

2. on 11 Aug 2015 at 7:03 pm   Demis

   Sorry, yours does move the tick labels. What I added was to move the Axis label.
   Either way, thanks for posting it!