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

matplotlib.pyplot.setp(*args, **kwargs) is used to set properties of an artist object. You can use this in addition to get_xticklabes() to make it invisible.

something on the lines of the following

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(2,1,1)
ax.set_xlabel("X-Label",fontsize=10,color='red')
plt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(),visible=False)

Below is the reference page http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html