removing upper and right ticks

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hi all,

i have the following plot:

rcParams[‘xtick.direction’] = ‘out’
rcParams[‘ytick.direction’] = ‘out’
scatter(x, y)

this changes the tick directions to be out. how can i make it so only the ticks on the x axis and y axis appear? i.e. remove the ticks that are in the top axis (the one parallel to the x-axis) and in the right most axis (the one parallel to the y-axis)?

thanks.

2

Hi ,

The example below seems to do what you want, but I'm not sure if this is the
favourite way to do it.

Please notice: the if-statement might not be correct in any case of
application.

regards Matthias

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from matplotlib import rcParams
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

rcParams['xtick.direction'] = 'out'
rcParams['ytick.direction'] = 'out'

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

# run through all lines drawn for xticks and yticks
for i, line in enumerate(ax.get_xticklines() + ax.get_yticklines()):
    if i%2 == 1: # odd indices
        line.set_visible(False)

plt.show()

···

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On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:56:07 per freem wrote:

hi all,

i have the following plot:

rcParams['xtick.direction'] = 'out'
rcParams['ytick.direction'] = 'out'
scatter(x, y)

this changes the tick directions to be out. how can i make it so only the
ticks on the x axis and y axis appear? i.e. remove the ticks that are in
the top axis (the one parallel to the x-axis) and in the right most axis
(the one parallel to the y-axis)?

thanks.