title: Matplotlib: Aligning y-ticks to the left
body: <p>I have tick labels of variable length, and I want to align them to the left (i.e. to have a space between the shorter ones and the y axis). Is there any reasonable way to do this?
  Using horizontal alignment 'left' aligns them to the left, but they all start at the axis, so they end up inside the plot. So an alternative question could be - can I change their starting point?</p>
  
  <p>Code for demonstration:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import numpy as np
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  ticks = ["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicin", "g elit, sed do",      "eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labo", "re et dolore magna ali", "qua. Ut en", "im ad minim veniam, quis nostr", "ud exercitation ullamco labo", "ris nisi ut aliquip ex ea c", "ommodo co", "nsequat. Duis aute irure dolor in rep"]
  data = [5,1,2,4,1,4,5,2,1,5]
  ind = np.arange(len(data))
  fig = plt.figure()
  ax = plt.subplot(111)
  ax.barh(ind, data, 0.999)
  ax.set_yticks(ind + 0.5)
  r = ax.set_yticklabels(ticks)#, ha = 'left')
  fig.set_size_inches(12, 8)
  fig.savefig(r'C:\try.png', bbox_extra_artists=r, bbox_inches='tight')
  </code></pre>