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copied!<pre><code>headings=[['Jan to Feb'], ['Feb to Mar'], ['Mar to Apr'], ['Apr to May'], ['May to June'], ['Jun to July'], ['July to Aug'], ['Aug to Sep'], ['Sep to Oct'], ['Oct to Nov']] incoming=[[27, 42, 66, 85, 65, 64, 68, 68, 77, 58], [24, 39, 58, 79, 60, 62, 67, 62, 55, 35], [3, 3, 8, 6, 5, 2, 1, 6, 22, 23], [3, 3, 8, 6, 5, 2, 1, 6, 22, 23], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], ] joint=[[486, 511, 615, 825, 760, 693, 848, 639, 651, 657] [444, 482, 562, 793, 729, 666, 812, 599, 592, 597] [42, 29, 53, 32, 31, 27, 36, 40, 59, 60] [29, 28, 35, 32, 31, 27, 36, 40, 59, 60] [13, 1, 18, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] ] </code></pre> <p>See Photo: <a href="http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/superempl/media/figure_1_zps782354d7.png.html" rel="nofollow">http://s1362.photobucket.com/user/superempl/media/figure_1_zps782354d7.png.html</a></p> <p>I need to shift the x-axis labels to the right. I've tried:</p> <pre><code>plot.set_xticklabels(headings,multialignment='right') </code></pre> <p>but this had no effect.</p> <p>Could someone explain what must be done to alter the position of these labels to the centre of each bar.</p> <p>My code is as follows:</p> <pre><code>import pylab as p from matplotlib.ticker import MaxNLocator fig = p.figure(figsize=(20,8)) plot = fig.add_subplot(111) ind = range(len(headings)) bar1 = plot.bar(ind,joint[0],facecolor='#777777') bar2 = plot.bar(ind,outgoing[0],facecolor='#B0E0E6') # x-axis plot.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(10)) plot.set_xticklabels(headings) p.show() </code></pre>

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