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Is there a way to turn of xticks and yticks using matplotlibrc or another matplotlib config method? The only way I see currently is to set the sizes of ticks and tick labels to zero. That seems an odd way, given that I can set_xticks(())

Andreas Mueller
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You can do this with tick_params

plt.tick_params(axis='both', which='both')

This is affecting both axis (other options are x or y). It also affects both major and minor ticks (other options are major or minor)

This will leave ticks around the outer edge, but not in the plot. If you want the edge ticks removed, you can add:

bottom='off'
top='off'
left='off'
right='off'

If you want to remove the labels, you'll want to turn these off

labelbottom='off'
labeltop='off'
labelleft='off'
labelright='off'
Andy
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  • That's great! It seems like a very long command to turn off ticks but it seems to work. It seems to work persistently, but I can't see that mentioned in the docs. – Andreas Mueller Jan 27 '16 at 18:33