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I posted this as a question at [stackoverflow] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7224155/polar-plot-error-bars-dont-rotate-with-angle-in-matplotlib), and maybe the answer could be useful. Surely, this should not be default behavior though.\r\n\r\nExample non-working code:\r\n\r\n```\r\nfrom numpy import *\r\nfrom matplotlib import pyplot as py\r\n\r\n\r\nr=zeros([16])\r\nerr=zeros([16]) \r\nfor i in range(16):\r\n    r[i]=random.randint(400,600)\r\n    err[i]=random.randint(20,50)\r\ntheta=arange(0,2*pi,2*pi/16)\r\nwidth = pi*2/16\r\n\r\nfig = py.figure(figsize=(8,8))\r\nax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.75, 0.79], polar=True)\r\n\r\nbars = ax.bar(theta+pi/16, r, width=width, bottom=0.0,yerr=err)\r\nax.set_ylim(0,700)\r\npy.show()\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/comments/120172377","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/441#issuecomment-120172377","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/441","id":120172377,"user":{"login":"isomerase","id":5415776,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5415776?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase","html_url":"https://github.com/isomerase","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/isomerase/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-09T23:17:34Z","updated_at":"2015-07-09T23:17:34Z","body":"It seems to me like this has been resolved? Attached is the plot that the figure produces.\r\n\r\n![figure_1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5415776/8609065/fe479404-2655-11e5-9551-926c91521a04.png)\r\n"}}