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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def add_ticks_to_x(ax, newticks, newnames):
 """Add new ticks to an axis. I use this for the right-hand plotting of resonance names in my plots. """

    ticks = list(ax.get_xticks())
    ticks.extend(newticks)
    ax.set_xticks(ticks)

    names = list(ax.get_xticklabels())
    names.extend(newnames)
    ax.set_xticklabels(names)