.. _ticks_and_spines-spines_demo_dropped: ticks_and_spines example code: spines_demo_dropped.py ===================================================== .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/other_source/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/ticks_and_spines/spines_demo_dropped.py :: """ Demo of spines offset from the axes (a.k.a. "dropped spines"). """ import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots() image = np.random.uniform(size=(10, 10)) ax.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray, interpolation='nearest') ax.set_title('dropped spines') # Move left and bottom spines outward by 10 points ax.spines['left'].set_position(('outward', 10)) ax.spines['bottom'].set_position(('outward', 10)) # Hide the right and top spines ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False) ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False) # Only show ticks on the left and bottom spines ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left') ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom') plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)