Removing frame while keeping axes in pyplot subplots

Question

I am creating a figure with 3 subplots, and was wondering if there is any way of removing the frame around them, while keeping the axes in place?

Answer 1

If you want to remove the axis spines, but not the other information (ticks, labels, etc.), you can do that like so:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(7,1, sharex=True)  t = np.arange(0, 1, 0.01)  for i, a in enumerate(ax):     a.plot(t, np.sin((i + 1) * 2 * np.pi * t))     a.spines["top"].set_visible(False)     a.spines["right"].set_visible(False)     a.spines["bottom"].set_visible(False) 

or, more easily, using seaborn:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(7,1, sharex=True)  t = np.arange(0, 1, 0.01)  for i, a in enumerate(ax):     a.plot(t, np.sin((i + 1) * 2 * np.pi * t))  seaborn.despine(left=True, bottom=True, right=True) 

Both approaches will give you:

Answer 2

Try plt.box(on=None) It removed only the bounding box (frame) around plot, which is what I was trying to do.

plt.axis('off') removed tick labels and the bounding box, which wasn't what I was looking to accomplish.