How to hide axis in matplotlib figure?
The matplotlib.pyplot.axis(‘off’) command us used to hide the axis(both x-axis & y-axis) in the matplotlib figure.
Example:
Let us consider the following figure in which we have to hide the axis.
Python3
# code import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Marks of RAM in different subjects out of 100. x = ['Science', 'Maths', 'English', 'History', 'Geography'] y = [75, 85, 88, 78, 74] plt.bar(x, y) plt.xlabel("Subject") plt.ylabel("Ram's marks out of 100") plt.show() |
Output:
Example:
Hiding the axis in the above figure.
Python3
# code import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Marks of RAM in different subjects out of 100. x = ['Science', 'Maths', 'English', 'History', 'Geography'] y = [75, 85, 88, 78, 74] plt.xlabel("Subject") plt.ylabel("Ram's marks out of 100") plt.bar(x, y) plt.axis('off') # command for hiding the axis. plt.show() |
Output:
If we just want to turn either the X-axis or Y-axis off, we can use plt.xticks( ) or plt.yticks( ) method respectively.
Example:
Hiding Y-axis
Python3
# Hiding Y-axis label import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Marks of RAM in different subjects out of 100. x = ['Science', 'Maths', 'English', 'History', 'Geography'] y = [75, 85, 88, 78, 74] plt.bar(x, y) plt.xlabel("Subject") plt.ylabel("Ram's marks out of 100") plt.yticks([]) # Command for hiding y-axis plt.show() |
Output:
Example:
Hiding X-axis
Python3
# Hiding X-axis import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Marks of RAM in different subjects out of 100. x = ['Science', 'Maths', 'English', 'History', 'Geography'] y = [75, 85, 88, 78, 74] plt.bar(x, y) plt.xlabel("Subject") plt.ylabel("Ram's marks out of 100") plt.xticks([]) # Command for hiding x-axis plt.show() |
Output:
Hide Axis, Borders and White Spaces in Matplotlib
When we draw plots using Matplotlib, the ticks and labels along x-axis & y-axis are drawn too. For drawing creative graphs, many times we hide x-axis & y-axis.