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Dear all,
I have recently set up a simple tutorial on how to create gui applications
with wxPython. One of the examples shows how to embed matplotlib plots in
the application.
It is only a recompilation of tutorials found on the web, including the
matplotlib website, but the example is provided as a template application
that
can be downloaded and used to spawn plotting applications in minutes.
In case you are interested, the tutorial is at www.oneminutepython.com.

Best regards,
Giancarlo

Hello,
How is it possible to increase the space between xticks in the following 
code:

from pylab import *
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

y1 = [20, 24, 8, 4, 12, 22, 31, 25, 15, 28, 12, 27, 22, 22, 27, 14, 32, 
28, 8, 17, 2, 8, 29, 13, 14, 20, 11, 28, 8]
y2= [2, 32, 28, 1, 22, 11, 14, 27, 3, 31, 12, 20, 32, 24, 24, 16, 7, 10, 
12, 11, 3, 32, 10, 20, 14, 14, 3, 25, 14]
point_labels1 = ['A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 
'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 
'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1', 'A=1']
point_labels2 = ['B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 
'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 
'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1', 'B=1']

#fig = plt.figure(figsize=(40,40))
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

ax.set_title('The red point should be on the path')
ax.grid(True)

maxy = max(max(y1), max(y2))
maxx = max(len(y1), len(y2))
x = range(1,maxx+1)

plt.plot(x, y1, '--bo', x, y2, '--go')

# rotates and right aligns the x labels, and moves the bottom of the
# axes up to make room for them
fig.autofmt_xdate()


# set x and y labels
plt.xticks(range(1, maxx+2, 1))

#ax.set_xticks(4.5)
plt.yticks(range(1, maxy+1, 1))

plt.xlabel('Longitude')
plt.ylabel('Latitude')
plt.legend(('Model length', 'Data length'),
           'best', shadow=True, fancybox=True)

for i, label in enumerate(y1):
   plt.text (x[i], y1[i]+0.2, label,
             horizontalalignment='center', fontsize=8 )

for i, label in enumerate(y2):
   plt.text (x[i], y2[i]+0.2, label,
             horizontalalignment='center', fontsize=8 )

plt.savefig('test.png')


Thank you in advance.