plot with custom text for x axis points

Question

I am drawing a plot using matplotlib and python like the sample code below   x   array  0 1 2 3   y   array  20 21 22 23   plot x y  show     As it is the code above on the x axis I will see drawn values 0 0  0 5  1 0  1 5 i e  the same values of my reference x values   Is there anyway to map each point of x to a different string  So for example I want x axis to show months names  strings Jun  July      or other strings like people names    John    Arnold         or clock time    12 20    12 21    12 22          Do you know what I can do or what function to have a look at  For my purpose could it be matplotlib ticker of help

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This worked for me  Each month on X axis  str month list     January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December   ax set xticks range 0 12   ax set xticklabels str month list

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You can manually set xticks  and yticks  using pyplot xticks   import matplotlib pyplot as plt import numpy as np  x   np array  0 1 2 3   y   np array  20 21 22 23   my xticks     John   Arnold   Mavis   Matt   plt xticks x  my xticks  plt plot x  y  plt show

[python] plot with custom text for x axis points

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