Re: [Matplotlib-users] MultipleLocator and MaxNLocator

On 2015/02/14 8:45 AM, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
> Erik, that doesn't seem to work either. I tried this:
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator
> class TrimmedMultipleLocator(MultipleLocator):
>       def tick_values(self, vmin, vmax):
>           return MultipleLocator.tick_values(self, vmin, vmax)[2:]
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax1 = fig.add_subplot(111)
> ax1.xaxis.set_major_locator(TrimmedMultipleLocator(5))
> #xticks[0].label1.set_visible(False)
> #xticks[-1].label1.set_visible(False)
> #ax1.set_xticks(ax1.xaxis.get_major_ticks()[1:-1])
> ax1.plot(list(range(21)))
> plt.show()

Are you sure?  I tried it, and it works for me.  See attached script and 
output.

Eric