Turning of ticks in matplotlibrc

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Hi everybody.

I have been trying to turn off xticks and yticks and their labels in

matplotlibrc.

[Ticks](http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axis_api.html#matplotlib.axis.Tick)
have an argument "tick1On" and "label1On" but it seems I can not use

these

in the config file. Is that correct?

Is there any other way to turn of ticks by default?

Thanks,

Andy
2

Hi Andy,

I don’t think there are any rc parameters for controlling this, but you can call plt.axis('off') or ax.set_axis_off(). I know that’s not what you were looking for, but I thought I’d mention it.

Best,

-Tony

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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Mueller <amueller@…4089…> wrote:

Hi everybody.

I have been trying to turn off xticks and yticks and their labels in

matplotlibrc.

[Ticks](http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axis_api.html#matplotlib.axis.Tick)
have an argument "tick1On" and "label1On" but it seems I can not use

these

in the config file. Is that correct?

Is there any other way to turn of ticks by default?



Thanks,

Andy
3

Gurus,

Windows XP, matplotlib 1.1.0. Backend Tk, but the same elsewhere.

Programme:

import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
mpl.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2
mpl.rcParams['lines.color'] = 'r'

x=range(800)
y=[t for t in x]
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.show()

# ==============================
Linewidth OK, equal to 2, but the line is still blue. Changing "r" to red, or to #ff0000, or (1,0,0) doesn't change anything, still blue. Changing directly the matplotlibrc file (default) - the same. Leaving in peace the defaults, constructing another rc in the working dir - the same. The dictionary rcParams contains the correct value
'lines.color': 'r'
(Anyway, rcsetup.py validation doesn't protest. But then, the modified colour is ignored).

Somebody could confirm that?

The best.

Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France

4

Plot() doesn’t use lines.color. I don’t remember the exact name, but it uses an rcparam for color cycling. Just change make the list of colors be just ‘r’.

Ben Root

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On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:

Gurus,

Windows XP, matplotlib 1.1.0. Backend Tk, but the same elsewhere.

Programme:

import matplotlib as mpl

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

mpl.rcParams[‘lines.linewidth’] = 2

mpl.rcParams[‘lines.color’] = ‘r’

x=range(800)

y=[t for t in x]

plt.plot(x,y)

plt.show()

==============================

Linewidth OK, equal to 2, but the line is still blue. Changing “r” to

red, or to #ff0000, or (1,0,0) doesn’t change anything, still blue.

Changing directly the matplotlibrc file (default) - the same. Leaving in

peace the defaults, constructing another rc in the working dir - the

same. The dictionary rcParams contains the correct value

‘lines.color’: ‘r’

(Anyway, rcsetup.py validation doesn’t protest. But then, the modified

colour is ignored).

Somebody could confirm that?

The best.

Jerzy Karczmarczuk

Caen, France

5

I wrote:

mpl.rcParams[‘lines.color’] = ‘r’

    ...

    ...the line is still blue.

BR answers:

    Plot() doesn't use lines.color.  I don't remember the exact

name, but it uses an rcparam for color cycling. Just change
make the list of colors be just ‘r’.

[!#!!%!!]

Of course I found that myself some time after reporting this

“bug”… Sorry.

The parameter is "axes.color_cycle"

Jerzy K.