Python hide ticks but show tick labels

Question

I can remove the ticks with

ax.set_xticks([]) 
ax.set_yticks([]) 

but this removes the labels as well. Any way I can plot the tick labels b

Answer 1

While attending a coursera course on Python, this was a question.

Below is the given solution, which I think is more readable and intuitive.

ax.tick_params(top='off', bottom='off', left='off', right='off', labelleft='on', labelbottom='on')