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How to hide axis of plot in Matplotlib

📅 2015-Jun-29 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ axis, matplotlib ⬩ 📚 Archive

For most types of plots drawn by Matplotlib, the ticks and labels along both X and Y axis is drawn too. To hide the ticks, labels or axis, we need to get the axes of the currently generated plot and change its properties.

import matplotlib.pyplot as mplot

# After creating plot ...

cur_axes = mplot.gca()
cur_axes.axes.get_xaxis().set_visible(False)
cur_axes.axes.get_yaxis().set_visible(False)
import matplotlib.pyplot as mplot

# After creating plot ...

cur_axes = mplot.gca()
cur_axes.axes.get_xaxis().set_ticks([])
cur_axes.axes.get_yaxis().set_ticks([])
import matplotlib.pyplot as mplot

# After creating plot ...

cur_axes = mplot.gca()
cur_axes.axes.get_xaxis().set_ticklabels([])
cur_axes.axes.get_yaxis().set_ticklabels([])

Tried with: Matplotlib 1.3.1 and Ubuntu 14.04


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