How to hide ticks label in python but keep the ticks in place?

Question

I want to hide my ticks label on a plot I created, but keep this tick itself (the little marks on the axis). When I try to use what I've found here, for example, the entire tick is removed, and not just the labels. How can I remove only the labels then?

Answer 1

Here is a slightly simpler answer, using ax.tick_params

import matplotlib.pylab as plt  fig, ax = plt.subplots() plt.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6])  ax.tick_params(labelbottom=False)      plt.show() 

Here is the resulting output in Matplotlib 3

As commented by @chris, one can similarly hide the labels on any of the other axes using labeltop, labelleft, labelright, in the above example, instead of labelbottom.

Answer 2

Set the tick labels not to be an empty array, but to be a list of empty strings. In the example below, I've replaced the xtick labels with empty strings, leaving the y axis untouched. From here you can selectively keep certain labels if you wished.

import pylab as plt  fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6])  labels = [item.get_text() for item in ax.get_xticklabels()]  empty_string_labels = ['']*len(labels) ax.set_xticklabels(empty_string_labels)  plt.show() 

This code is adapted from a previous answer.