matplotlib share x axis but don't show x axis tick labels for both, just one

Question

I\'m using python + matplotlib and I\'m having two plots share an axis. If you try to set graph1.set_xticklabels([]) while sharing an axis, it has no effect bec

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to comment on esmit's answer (which is the best solution in my opinion, thanks esmit), so I have to write my comment as a new answer: I put his solution into a simple function

def remove_inner_ticklabels(fig):
    for ax in fig.axes:
        try:
            ax.label_outer()
        except:
            pass

which you can call before plt.show(). Joe Kington's answer did not work for me for some reason.