Just is case somebody asks (like I did), this is also possible when one uses subplot2grid. For example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.subplot2grid((3,2), (0,1), rowspan=3)
plt.plot([2,3,4,5])
plt.tick_params(axis='y', which='both', labelleft='off', labelright='on')
plt.show()
It will show this: