How to access axis label object in matplotlib?

Question

I am trying to add some text to a figure that I would like to align with thexlabelof the axes. I want to find the coordinates of thexlabel, but the functionax.get_xlabel()only returns the string displayed in the label.

How can I get access to thexlabelobject (which I assume is just an instance of text) to find its coordinates, or is there some other means of obtaining them?

Answer 1

The solution is not to use ax.get_xlabel(), but:

xlbl = ax.xaxis.get_label()

Or as wwii pointed out, just save a reference to the label when creating it. Embarrasingly simple.

xlbl = ax.set_xlabel(...)

and to obtain the coordinates:

xlbl.get_position()