Another update: when you rotate the labels they're not always lined up with each other. Super annoying and makes the figure unusable for publication....which makes the function pretty much useless to me. Sorry...seems like a good start but I've encountered too many small annoying bugs that make the figures publication unfriendly.
Another update: using the full command works with rotations of 90 degrees for me.
i.e. xticklabel_rotate([], 90, []) works well, but xticklabel_rotate does not work. Now that I can use the full functionality of this nice program I want to update my original rating.
Unfortunately, I have not had the success of others with this file. When it rotates the labels, it overlays them onto the plot so they are half over the x-axis and data, and half where they should be. It looks horrible and I can't use the figures that way.
Update: The bug is in rotating 90 degrees. Other rotations work OK. But it's annoying to not have full rotation functionality.