Attempting to access the length of a matplotlib axis label with this code:
for label in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()[1::2]:
print(len(label))
However I am getting an error that the object does not have a length attribute. print(label[2]) also errors out with a similar error.
Matplotlib's text objects can't be accessed through standard indexing - what you're looking for is the get_text() attribute found in the text object documentation. E.g.
for label in ax.xaxis.get_tick_labels()[1::2]:
print(len(label.get_text()))
The labels you are iterating over from get_ticklabels() are matplotlib.text.Text objects. To access the actual text in that object, you can use get_text().
So, something like this should work:
for label in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()[1::2]:
print(len(label.get_text()))
Note that this length may include special characters (e.g. latex $ mathmode delimiters) as it is the length of the raw text string