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Text wrap axis labels in matplotlib automatically

January 2nd, 2014 by Lawrence David

To make long axis labels automatically wrap, use the textwrap module:

import textwrap
import pylab
wrap_label_string = ‘\n’.join(textwrap.wrap(mylabel_string,30))
pl.ylabel(wrap_label_string,multialignment=’center’)

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