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Adding a colorbar to inset axes#
![demo colorbar of inset axes](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_colorbar_of_inset_axes_001.png)
from matplotlib import cbook
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import inset_axes, zoomed_inset_axes
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=[5, 4])
ax.set(aspect=1, xlim=(-15, 15), ylim=(-20, 5))
Z = cbook.get_sample_data("axes_grid/bivariate_normal.npy", np_load=True)
extent = (-3, 4, -4, 3)
axins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax, zoom=2, loc='upper left')
axins.set(xticks=[], yticks=[])
im = axins.imshow(Z, extent=extent, origin="lower")
# colorbar
cax = inset_axes(axins,
width="5%", # width = 10% of parent_bbox width
height="100%", # height : 50%
loc='lower left',
bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 0., 1, 1),
bbox_transform=axins.transAxes,
borderpad=0,
)
fig.colorbar(im, cax=cax)
plt.show()
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