Documentation Link

https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xticklabels.html

Problem

The explanation forlabels says it accepts either sequence of strings or Texts:

However, it's also possible to pass as a parameter e.g.list ofints orfloats or similar and the method works too.

I think this should be reflected in the doc.

importrandomimportmatplotlib.pyplotaspltx=sorted(random.sample(range(15),5))y=sorted(random.sample(range(10),5))fig,ax=plt.subplots(figsize=(10,6))ax.plot(x,y,"o-")ax.set_xticks(x)ax.set_xticklabels(x)# x is `list` of INTs, not stringsax.grid(axis="x")

Gives this, without any problems:

Or if you generate list of floats:

x_labels= [random.random()for_inrange(len(x))]

And then update the tick labels:

ax.set_xticklabels(x_labels)# x is `list` of FLOATs, not strings

I'll get this:

Suggested improvement

Update the description so it's clear numeric arrays can be passed on as a parameter.