Re: [Matplotlib-users] sharex with different tick labels

[Francesco M. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Daniel,

2012/9/13 Daniel Welling <dan...@gm...>
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> I have an issue: I have several axes stacked in a column with a common time vector on each x-axis.  Each plot is a contour, so overplotting is not an option.  In a perfect world, I want the following:
> 1) The subplots are tightly spaced such that with ax.grid() activated, the grid lines appear continuous.  This makes comparing simultaneous characteristics between subplots very easy.
> 2) The subplots are linked via the "sharex" keyword so I can move them all in unison.
> 3) Only the bottommost subplot has x tick labels; on other plots, the long time-formatted labels stick out of the left and right of the plots.
>
> Items 2 and 3 are contradictory: if I turn off tick labels (e.g. ax.set_xticklabels('')) on one axes, the others turn off as well, including the bottom axes.  That is bad.
> Does anyone know of a good workaround for this?

To obtain what you want you have to set the tick labels invisible is
the axes where you don't want them to show up.
>From http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/shared_axis_demo.html:
setp( ax.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)

As the axis are shared, the ticklabels are also shared, so setting
them to "", erase them from all the axes.
I hope that this helps.

Cheers,
Francesco


>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -dw
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