Get xtick labels in matplotlib returns empty array?

Question

For the following code:

ax = plt.gca()
ticks = ax.get_xticklabels(True)
ax.set_xticklabels(labels,True)
plt.show()

The set_xticklabels is working and the plot is shown as expected . But the get_xticklabels returns an empty list. Is there any way to obtain the 'default' xticklabels before they are manually set?

Answer 1

I think the function you need is ax.get_xticks()