Re: [Matplotlib-users] [n00b] removing y axis and keeping x

[Daniel F. <fet...@go...>]

On 4/19/08, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> [...]
> > Yes, this would be really useful. For the moment I'll just turn off
> > all axis, I managed to do that. By the way is it possible to just turn
> > off the axis and not the tick labels?
>
> In your example below you could try
> graph.set_frame_on(False)
> That will leave the ticks and the tick labels but remove the box and
> the axes background, leaving the figure background (which you can set if
> needed).  If you also want to knock out the ticks, you can do this:
>
> tl = graph.xaxis.get_ticklines()
> for t in tl:
>      t.set_visible(False)
>
> and similarly for yaxis.
>
> [...]
> > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but this doesn't really work as
> > intended. I have this:
> >
> >     figure = pylab.figure( )
> >     figure.add_axes( [0,0,1,1] )  # this I added following your advice
> >     graph = figure.add_subplot(111)
>
> Replace the last two lines above with the single line:
>        graph = figure.add_axes( [0,0,1,1] )
> and the rest should work.
>
> Eric
>

Great, thanks very much!

Cheers,
Daniel