boxoff#

boxoff(ax=None, which=None, removeticks=True)[source]#

Removes the top and right borders (“spines”) of a plot.

Also optionally removes the tick marks, and flips the remaining ones outside. Can be used as an alias to plt.axis('off') if which='all'.

Parameters:

ax (Axes) – the axes to remove the spines from (if None, use current)
which (str/list) – a list or comma-separated string of spines: ‘top’, ‘bottom’, ‘left’, ‘right’, or ‘all’ (default top & right)
removeticks (bool) – whether to also remove the ticks from these spines
flipticks (bool) – whether to flip remaining ticks out

Examples:

plt.figure()
plt.plot([2,5,3])
sc.boxoff()

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.plot([1,4,1,4])
sc.boxoff(ax=ax, which='all')

fig = plt.figure()
plt.scatter(np.arange(100), np.random.rand(100))
sc.boxoff('top, bottom')

New in version 1.3.3: ability to turn off multiple spines; removed “flipticks” arguments