How to hide ticks label in python but keep the ticks in place?

Yotam picture Yotam · Jan 5, 2014 · Viewed 51.3k times · Source

I want to hide my ticks label on a plot I created, but keep this tick itself (the little marks on the axis). When I try to use what I've found here, for example, the entire tick is removed, and not just the labels. How can I remove only the labels then?

Answer

divenex picture divenex · Oct 17, 2014

Here is a slightly simpler answer, using ax.tick_params

import matplotlib.pylab as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6])

ax.tick_params(labelbottom=False)    

plt.show()

Here is the resulting output in Matplotlib 3

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As commented by @chris, one can similarly hide the labels on any of the other axes using labeltop, labelleft, labelright, in the above example, instead of labelbottom.