matplotlib axis arrow tip

Question

I am trying to set an arrow at the end of a an axis in matplotlib. I don\'t want to remove the spines and replace them with pure arrows because I need their functionalities

Answer 1

In order to obtain what you want, Julien's answer is enough after deleting the following section from the arrowed_spines function:

# removing the default axis on all sides:
for side in ['bottom','right','top','left']:
    ax.spines[side].set_visible(False)

# removing the axis ticks
plt.xticks([]) # labels 
plt.yticks([])
ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('none') # tick markers
ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('none')

Spines can still be modified after the inclusion of arrows, as you can see here: