[Solved] How to rotate xticklabels in a seaborn catplot

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  • The correct way to set the xticklabels for sns.catplot, according to the documentation, is with the .set_xticklabels method (.e.g. g.set_xticklabels(rotation=30)).
  • Using a loop to iterate through the Axes, should be used if changes need to be made on a plot by plot basis, within the FacetGrid.
  • Building structured multi-plot grids
  • seaborn.FacetGrid
  • g or in the case of the OP, ax is a seaborn.axisgrid.FacetGrid
    • When iterating through ax.axes.flat, axes is a <class 'matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot'>, which has a wide array of class methods, including .get_xticklabels().
import seaborn as sns

# load data
exercise = sns.load_dataset("exercise")

# plot catplot
g = sns.catplot(x="time", y="pulse", hue="kind", col="diet", data=exercise)

# set rotation
g.set_xticklabels(rotation=30)

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  • Using g.set_xticklabels(g.get_xticklabels(), rotation=30) results in an AttributeError.
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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-442-d1d39d8cc4f0> in <module>
      1 g = sns.catplot(x="time", y="pulse", hue="kind", col="diet", data=exercise)
----> 2 g.set_xticklabels(g.get_xticklabels(), rotation=30)

AttributeError: 'FacetGrid' object has no attribute 'get_xticklabels'

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solved How to rotate xticklabels in a seaborn catplot