код, на который вы ссылаетесь, прекрасно работает с небольшой модификацией. Это отличный пример того, что вы хотите сделать, поэтому я не публикую никакого нового кода, просто моя измененная версия:
импорт matplotlib.pyplot как plt
из matplotlib import transforms
def rainbow_text(x,y,ls,lc,**kw):
"""
Take a list of strings ``ls`` and colors ``lc`` and place them next to each
other, with text ls[i] being shown in color lc[i].
This example shows how to do both vertical and horizontal text, and will
pass all keyword arguments to plt.text, so you can set the font size,
family, etc.
"""
t = plt.gca().transData
fig = plt.gcf()
#### note: this line moved down ....###
#plt.show() #
#######################################
#horizontal version
for s,c in zip(ls,lc):
text = plt.text(x,y," "+s+" ",color=c, transform=t, **kw)
text.draw(fig.canvas.get_renderer())
ex = text.get_window_extent()
t = transforms.offset_copy(text._transform, x=ex.width, units='dots')
#vertical version
for s,c in zip(ls,lc):
text = plt.text(x,y," "+s+" ",color=c, transform=t,
rotation=90,va='bottom',ha='center',**kw)
text.draw(fig.canvas.get_renderer())
ex = text.get_window_extent()
t = transforms.offset_copy(text._transform, y=ex.height, units='dots')
t = plt.gca().transData
fig = plt.gcf()
plt.show() ############### when this is here, you can see that
############### all unicorns poo rainbows ;-)
plt.figure()
rainbow_text(0.0,0.0,"all unicorns poop rainbows ! ! !".split(),
['red', 'orange', 'brown', 'green', 'blue', 'purple', 'black'],
size=30)
### worked on matplotlib version 1.1.0 on Debian Wheezy. Which version did you try?