Consider this code snippet. By reversing the y axis, the ticks disappear and the padding on the z-axis is changed.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax.set_xlim3d(0,1)
ax.set_ylim3d(0,1)
ax.set_ylim3d(1,0)
#ax.set_zlim3d(0,1)
plt.show()
Consider this code snippet. By reversing the y axis, the ticks disappear and the padding on the z-axis is changed.