Re: [Matplotlib-users] tick label hiding problem

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Fitzgerald <mp...@be...> writes:


    Michael> I placed that command before the ax.get_xticklabels(),
    Michael> and no dice.

    Michael> Thanks for looking into this, Mike

I took a look at the formatter code and it turns out it *does* know
the list of locations it has to format.  I was wrong about this in my
previous post.  The formatter has a locs attribute you can inspect to
see how many ticks there are.  So you should be able to do something
like

class MyFormatter(ScalarFormatter):
    def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
        N = len(self.locs)
        if pos==0: return ''        # turn off first
        elif pos==(N-1): return ''  # turn off last
        else: return ScalarFormatter(self, x, pos)

and you can do other things similarly, eg to turn off every other tick

if (pos%2)==0: return ''

If you want to get very clever with turning on and off certain ticks,
you can also create a custom locator derived from the Locator class
you are using.

JDH