Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating a blank graph with room for hand written tick labels.

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"Ryan Krauss" <rya...@gm...> writes:

> I am writing a final exam and I want my students to sketch a graph of
> something and label the plot themselves.  So, I need to create an axis
> with x and y labels, but with no tick marks.  This I can do, but

> creating blank tick marks seems to get rid of the space where the
> students would write in their own tick marks.  

A quick hack would be to make non-blank tick marks but cause them to
be invisible in another way, e.g. by setting alpha=0 or color='w':

yticks(arange(-5,5.2),['0']*10,alpha=0)
xticks(arange(1,10),['0']*10,alpha=0)

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