Matplotlib - hiding specific ticks on x-axis

Question

I am trying to hide the first and last x-axis tick text of my bar plot, which is \'2004\' and \'2013\'. Matplotlib automatically adds these in by default, even though my dat

Answer 1

Just adding to @DmitryNazarov's answer, in case you want just to hide the tick labels, keeping the grid lines visible, use:

ax = plt.gca()     
ax.axes.xaxis.set_ticklabels([])
ax.axes.yaxis.set_ticklabels([])

Answer 2

Please, tell me if it's not what you want.

import sys, os
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

path = sys.path[0]
sizes = [(12,3,), (4,3,)]
x =  range(20)


for i, size in enumerate(sizes):
    fig = plt.figure(figsize = size, dpi = 80, facecolor='white',edgecolor=None,linewidth=0.0, frameon=True, subplotpars=None)
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    ax.plot(x)
    plt.ylabel ('Some label')
    plt.tight_layout()

    make_invisible = True
    if (make_invisible):
        xticks = ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks()
        xticks[0].label1.set_visible(False)
        xticks[-1].label1.set_visible(False)

plt.show()

This example makes invisible first and last X-ticks. But you can easily add checking for your special ticks.