I'd like to use rcParams to adjust which axes the minor and major ticks appear for plots.

Currently, it is possible to adjust the spines like so:
pyplot.rcParams['axes.spines.*'] = Boolean

There should be an equivalent series of settings for major and minor ticks:
pyplot.rcParams['axes.xticks.major.*] = Boolean
pyplot.rcParams['axes.xticks.minor.*'] = Boolean
pyplot.rcParams['axes.yticks.major.*'] = Boolean
pyplot.rcParams['axes.yticks.minor.*'] = Boolean

*=bottom, top, left, or right