matplotlib show only some xticks code example

Example 1: turn off xticks matplotlib

# for matplotlib.pyplot
# ---------------------
plt.xticks([], [])
# for axis object
# ---------------
# from Anakhand May 5 at 13:08
# for major ticks
ax.set_xticks([])
# for minor ticks
ax.set_xticks([], minor=True)

Example 2: matplotlib limit number of ticks

plt.xaxis.set_major_locator(plt.MaxNLocator(3))
plt.yaxis.set_major_locator(plt.MaxNLocator(3))