Centering line-broken axis label in matplotlib

Question

Any idea why the ylabel isn't center justified and how I might go about centering it?

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ylabel('Soil Moisture Sensitivity,\n(0.01 K m$^3$ m$^{-3}$)')

Tried adding \centering, didn't work.

Answer 1

did you try

ylabel('Soil Moisture Sensitivity,\n(0.01 K m$^3$ m$^{-3}$)', multialignment='center')?

As seen here: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/multiline.html