.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/demo_tight_layout.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. 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_tight_layout.py: =============================== Resizing axes with tight layout =============================== `~.figure.Figure.tight_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/tight_layout_guide` for more details and :doc:`/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide` for an alternative. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 14-30 .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import itertools import warnings fontsizes = itertools.cycle([8, 16, 24, 32]) def example_plot(ax): ax.plot([1, 2]) ax.set_xlabel('x-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes)) ax.set_ylabel('y-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes)) ax.set_title('Title', fontsize=next(fontsizes)) .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 31-36 .. code-block:: default fig, ax = plt.subplots() example_plot(ax) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_001.png :alt: Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 37-45 .. code-block:: default fig, ((ax1, ax2), (ax3, ax4)) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) example_plot(ax3) example_plot(ax4) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_002.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 46-52 .. code-block:: default fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=1) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_003.png :alt: Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 53-59 .. code-block:: default fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_004.png :alt: Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 60-66 .. code-block:: default fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=3) for ax in axs.flat: example_plot(ax) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_005.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 67-80 .. code-block:: default fig = plt.figure() ax1 = plt.subplot(221) ax2 = plt.subplot(223) ax3 = plt.subplot(122) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) example_plot(ax3) plt.tight_layout() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_006.png :alt: Title, Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 81-98 .. code-block:: default fig = plt.figure() ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 0)) ax2 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 1), colspan=2) ax3 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 0), colspan=2, rowspan=2) ax4 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 2), rowspan=2) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) example_plot(ax3) example_plot(ax4) plt.tight_layout() plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_007.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 99-136 .. code-block:: default fig = plt.figure() gs1 = fig.add_gridspec(3, 1) ax1 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[0]) ax2 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[1]) ax3 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[2]) example_plot(ax1) example_plot(ax2) example_plot(ax3) gs1.tight_layout(fig, rect=[None, None, 0.45, None]) gs2 = fig.add_gridspec(2, 1) ax4 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[0]) ax5 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[1]) example_plot(ax4) example_plot(ax5) with warnings.catch_warnings(): # gs2.tight_layout cannot handle the subplots from the first gridspec # (gs1), so it will raise a warning. We are going to match the gridspecs # manually so we can filter the warning away. warnings.simplefilter("ignore", UserWarning) gs2.tight_layout(fig, rect=[0.45, None, None, None]) # now match the top and bottom of two gridspecs. top = min(gs1.top, gs2.top) bottom = max(gs1.bottom, gs2.bottom) gs1.update(top=top, bottom=bottom) gs2.update(top=top, bottom=bottom) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_008.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title, Title :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 137-143 ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions and methods is shown in this example: .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 144-151 .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.pyplot.tight_layout matplotlib.figure.Figure.tight_layout matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_gridspec matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_subplot matplotlib.pyplot.subplot2grid .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 4.060 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_demo_tight_layout.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: demo_tight_layout.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: demo_tight_layout.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_