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Reputation: 57

How to stop seaborn despine removing y tick marks on second axis

I am encountering a problem when using despine() with seaborn. I am trying to use two y axes, and am only removing the neccesary spines for each axis, but despine() also removes the tick marks from the right hand vertical axis. A minimum working example is below:

import numpy as np 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn

seaborn.set()
seaborn.set_style("ticks")

fig, ax1 = plt.subplots(figsize=(6,2))
ax2 = ax1.twinx()

ax1.plot(np.array([0,1,3]))
ax2.plot(np.array([2,2,1]))

seaborn.despine(ax=ax2, left=True, right=False, trim="True")
seaborn.despine(ax=ax1, bottom=True, left=False, right=True, trim="true")

plt.show()

As you can see in the image below, this has also removed the tick marks from the right hand vertical axis (which I do not want).

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Any insights into how I would fix this would be highly appreciated!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 825

Answers (1)

mwaskom
mwaskom

Reputation: 49002

The way twinx is implemented, the ticks on the second y axis actually belong to the "left" spine, so you need

seaborn.despine(ax=ax2, left=False, right=False, trim="True")

Upvotes: 3

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