.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/axisartist/simple_axis_direction03.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_axisartist_simple_axis_direction03.py: ========================================== Simple axis tick label and tick directions ========================================== First subplot moves the tick labels to inside the spines. Second subplot moves the ticks to inside the spines. These effects can be obtained for a standard Axes by `~.Axes.tick_params`. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 10-39 .. image-sg:: /gallery/axisartist/images/sphx_glr_simple_axis_direction03_001.png :alt: simple axis direction03 :srcset: /gallery/axisartist/images/sphx_glr_simple_axis_direction03_001.png, /gallery/axisartist/images/sphx_glr_simple_axis_direction03_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import mpl_toolkits.axisartist as axisartist def setup_axes(fig, pos): ax = fig.add_subplot(pos, axes_class=axisartist.Axes) ax.set_yticks([0.2, 0.8]) ax.set_xticks([0.2, 0.8]) return ax fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 2)) fig.subplots_adjust(wspace=0.4, bottom=0.3) ax1 = setup_axes(fig, 121) ax1.set_xlabel("ax1 X-label") ax1.set_ylabel("ax1 Y-label") ax1.axis[:].invert_ticklabel_direction() ax2 = setup_axes(fig, 122) ax2.set_xlabel("ax2 X-label") ax2.set_ylabel("ax2 Y-label") ax2.axis[:].major_ticks.set_tick_out(False) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_axisartist_simple_axis_direction03.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: simple_axis_direction03.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: simple_axis_direction03.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_