This was discussed not too long ago in PyQt mailing list. Quoting Giovanni Bajo’s comments on the subject: It’s mostly the same. The main difference is that QThreads are better integrated with Qt (asynchrnous signals/slots, event loop, etc.). Also, you can’t use Qt from a Python thread (you can’t for instance post event to the … Read more
As a quick example (using a slightly cleaner method than the potentially duplicate question): import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot(range(10)) ax.set_xlabel(‘X-axis’) ax.set_ylabel(‘Y-axis’) ax.spines[‘bottom’].set_color(‘red’) ax.spines[‘top’].set_color(‘red’) ax.xaxis.label.set_color(‘red’) ax.tick_params(axis=”x”, colors=”red”) plt.show() Alternatively [t.set_color(‘red’) for t in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines()] [t.set_color(‘red’) for t in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()]