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How to make the last mark invisible in a matplotlib axes subplot?

Say the marks of an axes subplot is shown as "0,20,40,60,80,100", but I want to make the last mark 100 invisible. Not sure how to do it for a matplotlib axes subplot?

Solution

  • If you are setting the positions of x-ticks, you can simply replace the last label by a empty string.

    import pylab as plt

x=[12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
y=[14, 15, 16, 17, 18]

xticks=[12,13,14,15,16]

fig=plt.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x,y,'o-')

ax.set_xticks(xticks)
ax.set_xticklabels(xticks[:-1]+[""])
plt.show()

    You can also use the following to remove the last x-tick label

    for label in ax.get_xticklabels():
    pass
label.set_visible(False)