Disable value of pixels from toolbar on matplot figure

Question

As read on here and here, they use format_coord to disable coordinates or change format from the toolbar. Using axe.format_coord = lambda x, y: '' as in the linked question, removed the coordinates, which is fine. However, I also want to disable the value of pixels:

I then tried to use

axe.format_coord = lambda x, y,z:''

but that gave an error:

    s = event.inaxes.format_coord(event.xdata, event.ydata)
TypeError: <lambda>() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

Please help me to fix it.

Answer 1

In order to suppress any output in the status bar of the figure window, one may replace the figure toolbar's message method (NavigationToolbar2's .set_message) with a lambda function that returns an empty string:

fig.canvas.toolbar.set_message = lambda x: ""

Complete example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.imshow(np.random.rand(5,5))
fig.canvas.toolbar.set_message = lambda x: ""

plt.show()