Remove the x-axis ticks while keeping the grids (matplotlib) [duplicate]

Question

I want to remove the ticks on the x-axis but keep the vertical girds. When I do the following I lose both x-axis ticks as well as the grid.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure()  figr = fig.add_subplot(211) ... figr.axes.get_xaxis().set_visible(False) figr.xaxsis.grid(True) 

How can I retain the grid while makeing x-axis ticks invisible?

Answer 1

By removing the ticks, do you mean remove the tick labels or the ticks themselves? This will remove the labels:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np  x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111)  ax.plot(x, np.sin(x))  ax.grid(True) ax.set_xticklabels([])   plt.show() 

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If you really want to get rid of the little tick lines, you can add this:

for tic in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():     tic.tick1On = tic.tick2On = False 

You could turn the tick labels off here too without resorting to the ax.set_xticklabels([]) "hack" by setting tic.label1On = tic.label2On = False:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np  x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111)  ax.plot(x, np.sin(x))  ax.grid(True) for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():     tick.tick1line.set_visible(False)     tick.tick2line.set_visible(False)     tick.label1.set_visible(False)     tick.label2.set_visible(False)  plt.show()