Cannot increase distance between shape and its label outside of the object

Challenge

I would like to draw a shape using the label argument to position the label outside of the shape. Unfortunately, the label always touches the shape and padding only works in one direction: towards the center of the shape.

Here is an example:

import plotly.graph_objects as go

fig = go.Figure()

for i in range(0, 4):
    fig.add_shape(
        go.layout.Shape(
            type="rect",
            x0=10,
            y0=10*i + 3,
            x1=15,
            y1=10*i + 10,
            label={
                "text": f"Padding: {i*10}px",
                "textposition": "middle right",
                "xanchor": "left",
                "yanchor": "middle",
                "padding": i*10,
            },
        )
    )

fig.update_layout(xaxis_range=[0, 20], yaxis_range=[0, 60])

fig.show()

Despite seting xanchor="left" and textposition="middle right", the label barely touches the shape (for padding=0) and with increasing padding the label always moves towards the center.

Setting padding to a negative value seems not to be allowed:

ValueError: 
    Invalid value of type 'builtins.int' received for the 'padding' property of layout.shape.label
        Received value: -10

    The 'padding' property is a number and may be specified as:
      - An int or float in the interval [0, inf]

Expected Behavior

Either infer from anchor and textposition, if a label should be outside of the shape, or allow negative values for padding so that I can increase the distance between the rectangle and the label.

I could not find any other info regarding this observation and I would like to avoid using an annotation as a workaround.

Am I overlooking something or is this a bug?

System Info

python: v3.10.11
plotly: v5.24.1

Working in a VSCode (v1.96.2) notebook and tested multiple different renderers with identical outcome: "vscode", "notebook", "browser".
Same result with write_image and pdf and png.

Inizia eseguendo l’esempio fornito di go.Figure/add_shape con i diversi valori di padding e renderer. Traccia il modo in cui le label delle forme gestiscono textposition, xanchor e padding; l’issue è completata quando le label possono essere distanziate verso l’esterno della forma senza un workaround con annotation, con una copertura di regressione per il caso dimostrato.