`Axes.tick_params` can set gridline properties ---------------------------------------------- `Tick` objects hold gridlines as well as the tick mark and its label. `Axis.set_tick_params`, `Axes.tick_params` and `pyplot.tick_params` now have keyword arguments 'grid_color', 'grid_alpha', 'grid_linewidth', and 'grid_linestyle' for overriding the defaults in `rcParams`: 'grid.color', etc.