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Bug summary
In matplotlib 2.0.2 you could rotate the axes labels on a polar plot, just as with any other plot
for i, label in enumerate(ax.get_xticklabels()):
label.set_rotation(i*90)This is not possible anymore with matplotlib 2.2.2
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig=plt.figure(figsize=(4,3))
ax = plt.subplot(111, polar=True)
ax.set_xlabel("Matplotlib "+matplotlib.__version__)
ticks = np.arange(3)*np.pi/2.
labels = ["".join([a]*5) for a in list("ABC")]
plt.xticks(ticks, labels, size=16)
for i, label in enumerate(ax.get_xticklabels()):
label.set_rotation(i*90)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()Actual outcome with matplotlib 2.2.2
The rotation of the labels is simply ignored.
Expected outcome (as with 2.0.2)
We would expect to see the labels rotated as in this plot, produced by the same code run on matplotlib 2.0.2.
