python - matplotlib y-axis label on right side

Question

Is there a simple way to put the y-axis label on the right-hand side of the plot? I know that this can be done for the tick labels using ax.yaxis.tick_right(), but I would like to know if it can be done for the axis label as well.

One idea which came to mind was to use

ax.yaxis.tick_right()
ax2 = ax.twinx()
ax2.set_ylabel('foo')

However, this doesn't have the desired effect of placing all labels (tick and axis labels) on the right-hand side, while preserving the extent of the y-axis. In short, I would like a way to move all the y-axis labels from the left to the right.

Answer 1

It looks like you can do it with:

ax.yaxis.set_label_position("right")
ax.yaxis.tick_right()

See here for an example.