.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_demo_constrained_layout.py: ===================================== Resizing axes with constrained layout ===================================== Constrained layout attempts to resize subplots in a figure so that there are no overlaps between axes objects and labels on the axes. See :doc:`/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide` for more details and :doc:`/tutorials/intermediate/tight_layout_guide` for an alternative. .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def example_plot(ax): ax.plot([1, 2]) ax.set_xlabel('x-label', fontsize=12) ax.set_ylabel('y-label', fontsize=12) ax.set_title('Title', fontsize=14) If we don't use constrained_layout, then labels overlap the axes .. code-block:: default fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, constrained_layout=False) for ax in axs.flat: example_plot(ax) .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img adding ``constrained_layout=True`` automatically adjusts. .. code-block:: default fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, constrained_layout=True) for ax in axs.flat: example_plot(ax) .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_002.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img Below is a more complicated example using nested gridspecs. .. code-block:: default fig = plt.figure(constrained_layout=True) import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec gs0 = gridspec.GridSpec(1, 2, figure=fig) gs1 = gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec(3, 1, subplot_spec=gs0[0]) for n in range(3): ax = fig.add_subplot(gs1[n]) example_plot(ax) gs2 = gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec(2, 1, subplot_spec=gs0[1]) for n in range(2): ax = fig.add_subplot(gs2[n]) example_plot(ax) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_003.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions and methods is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpec matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_demo_constrained_layout.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: demo_constrained_layout.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: demo_constrained_layout.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_