Thread: [Matplotlib-users] turning off tick marks

can someone tell me how to turn off the tick marks on my plot?

i tried this

    [line.set_marker('None') for line in ax.get_xticklines()]

but this turns off the labels too.  i don't want to turn off the
labels, just the tick marks.

someone also suggested this

   ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(pylab.NullLocator())

but it also turns off the labels

Try "ax.set_xticks([])", I think that works for 2D plots.

Ben Root

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jeff Perry <je...@gm...> wrote:

> can someone tell me how to turn off the tick marks on my plot?
>
> i tried this
>
>    [line.set_marker('None') for line in ax.get_xticklines()]
>
> but this turns off the labels too.  i don't want to turn off the
> labels, just the tick marks.
>
> someone also suggested this
>
>   ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(pylab.NullLocator())
>
> but it also turns off the labels
>
>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> Try "ax.set_xticks([])", I think that works for 2D plots.

Nope, labels disappear.

Jeff, try this:

ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('none')

Ryan

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Ryan May
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School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma

On 06/17/2010 07:35 AM, Ryan May wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Root<ben...@ou...>  wrote:
>> Try "ax.set_xticks([])", I think that works for 2D plots.
>
> Nope, labels disappear.
>
> Jeff, try this:
>
> ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('none')
>
> Ryan
>

In [1]:plot([1,2])
Out[1]:[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x3e11510>]

In [2]:ax = gca()

In [3]:for t in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines(): t.set_visible(False)
    ...:

In [4]:draw()