How to display only a left and bottom box border in matplotlib?

Question

I'm trying to plot data in matplotlib. I would like to hide the upper and right parts of the box. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Just set the spines (and/or ticks) to be invisible.

E.g.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  fig, ax = plt.subplots()  ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False) ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)  plt.show() 

If you want to hide the ticks on the top and left as well, just do:

ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom') ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left') 

Answer 2

Consider also this option:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Create your plot with your code # Then extract the spines and make them invisible ax = plt.gca() ax.spines['right'].set_color('none') ax.spines['top'].set_color('none') plt.show() # Show your plot 

or just

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Create your plot with your code # Then extract the spines and make them invisible plt.gca().spines['right'].set_color('none') plt.gca().spines['top'].set_color('none') plt.show() # Show your plot 

Hope it helps somebody