ENH plot ticklabels: use grid-spec

eelbrain/plot/_base.py

@@ -1811,23 +1811,24 @@ def _configure_axis(
         nax = len(axes)
         if isinstance(ticklabels, bool):
             show_ticklabels = [ticklabels] * nax
+        elif isinstance(ticklabels, str):
+            if ticklabels == 'bottom':
+                show_ticklabels = [ax.get_subplotspec().is_last_row() for ax in axes]
+            elif ticklabels == 'left':
+                show_ticklabels = [ax.get_subplotspec().is_first_col() for ax in axes]
+            elif ticklabels == 'all':
+                show_ticklabels = [True] * nax
+            elif ticklabels == 'none':
+                show_ticklabels = [False] * nax
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"ticklabels={ticklabels!r}")
         else:
-            if isinstance(ticklabels, str):
-                if ticklabels == 'bottom':
-                    ticklabels = range(-min(self._layout.ncol, nax), 0)
-                elif ticklabels == 'left':
-                    ticklabels = range(0, nax, self._layout.ncol)
-                elif ticklabels == 'all':
-                    ticklabels = [True] * nax
-                elif ticklabels == 'none':
-                    ticklabels = [False] * nax
-                else:
-                    raise ValueError(f"ticklabels={ticklabels!r}")
-            elif isinstance(ticklabels, int):
-                ticklabels = [ticklabels]
             show_ticklabels = [False] * nax
-            for i in ticklabels:
-                show_ticklabels[i] = True
+            if isinstance(ticklabels, int):
+                show_ticklabels[ticklabels] = True
+            else:
+                for i in ticklabels:
+                    show_ticklabels[i] = True
 
         # parameter for hiding tick-labels
         if axis == 'y':

env-dev.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dependencies:
 - numpy >= 1.20
 - scipy >= 1.5
 - numba
-- matplotlib-base >= 3.3.4  # https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/15410
+- matplotlib-base >= 3.4  # https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/15410
 - pyarrow
 - pillow
 - psutil