By remove the ticks, do you mean remove the tick labels or the ticks themselves? This will remove the labels:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x))
ax.grid(True)
ax.set_xticklabels([])
plt.show()
If you really want to get rid of the little tick lines, you can add this:
for tic in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
tic.tick1On = tic.tick2On = False
You could turn the tick labels off here too without resorting to the ax.set_xticklabels([]) "hack" by setting tic.label1On = tic.label2On = False:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x))
ax.grid(True)
for tic in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
tic.tick1On = tic.tick2On = False
tic.label1On = tic.label2On = False
plt.show()
