Remove xticks in a matplot lib plot?

Question

I have a semilogx plot and I would like to remove the xticks. I tried :

plt.gca().set_xticks([])

plt.xticks([])

ax.set_xticks([])

The grid disappear (ok), but small ticks (at the place of the main ticks) remain. How to remove them ?

Answer 1

The tick_params method is very useful for stuff like this. This code turns off major and minor ticks and removes the labels from the x-axis.

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.plot(range(10))
plt.tick_params(
    axis='x',          # changes apply to the x-axis
    which='both',      # both major and minor ticks are affected
    bottom='off',      # ticks along the bottom edge are off
    top='off',         # ticks along the top edge are off
    labelbottom='off') # labels along the bottom edge are off
plt.show()
plt.savefig('plot')
plt.clf()

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