def _set_axis_properties(self, axis):
        if not getattr(axis, 'properties'):
            axis.properties = AxisProperties()
            for prop in ['ticks', 'axis', 'major_ticks', 'minor_ticks',
                         'title', 'labels']:
                setattr(axis.properties, prop, PropertySet())
Set AxisProperties and PropertySets
dataset/ETHPy150Open wrobstory/vincent/vincent/visualization.py/Visualization._set_axis_properties