Cleanest way to hide every nth tick label in matplotlib colorbar?

Question

The labels on my horizontal colorbar are too close together and I don\'t want to reduce text size further:

cbar = plt.colorbar(shrink=0.8, orientation=\'hori         


        

Answer 1

I use the following to show every 7th x label:

plt.scatter(x, y)
ax = plt.gca()
temp = ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()
temp = list(set(temp) - set(temp[::7]))
for label in temp:
    label.set_visible(False)
plt.show()

It's pretty flexible, as you can do whatever you want instead of plt.scatter. Hope it helps.