How to move tick labels off left spine

Question

In matplotlib, how do I move the y tick labels to the far left side of the charting areas when I have moved the left spine?

Code:

import matplotlib.p         


        

Answer 1

Changing the transformation of the y-ticklabels back to the original y-axis transform would give you the desired ticks on the left side of the axes.

plt.setp(ax.get_yticklabels(), transform=ax.get_yaxis_transform())

Complete code for reproducibility

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

X = range(-10,5)
y = [i**2 for i in X]

fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,1, figsize=(10,8))
plt.plot(X, y)
ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
ax.spines['left'].set_position('zero')

plt.setp(ax.get_yticklabels(), transform=ax.get_yaxis_transform())

plt.show()