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

You can set the yaxis and xaxis set_ticks_position properties so they just show on the left and bottom sides, respectively.

ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')

Furthermore, you can hide the spines as well by setting the set_visible property of the specific spine to False.

axes[i].spines['right'].set_visible(False)
axes[i].spines['top'].set_visible(False)