How to turn off the ticks AND marks of a matlibplot axes?

python matplotlib axes
Hailiang Zhang picture Hailiang Zhang · Jul 22, 2012 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I want to plot 2 subplots by using matlibplot axes. Since these two subplots have the same ylabel and ticks, I want to turn off both the ticks AND marks of the second subplot. Following is my short script:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ax1=plt.axes([0.1,0.1,0.4,0.8])
ax1.plot(X1,Y1)
ax2=plt.axes([0.5,0.1,0.4,0.8])
ax2.plot(X2,Y2)

BTW, the X axis marks overlapped and not sure whether there is a neat solution or not. (A solution might be make the last mark invisible for each subplot except for the last one, but not sure how). Thanks!

Answer

pelson picture pelson · Jul 23, 2012

A quick google and I found the answers:

plt.setp(ax2.get_yticklabels(), visible=False)
ax2.yaxis.set_tick_params(size=0)
ax1.yaxis.tick_left()

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