.. 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_constrained_layout.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` 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 :ref:`constrainedlayout_guide` for more details and :ref:`tight_layout_guide` for an alternative. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 14-25 .. code-block:: Python 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) .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 26-27 If we don't use *constrained layout*, then labels overlap the axes .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 27-33 .. code-block:: Python fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, layout=None) for ax in axs.flat: example_plot(ax) .. image-sg:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_001.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title :srcset: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_001.png, /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 34-35 adding ``layout='constrained'`` automatically adjusts. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 35-41 .. code-block:: Python fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, layout='constrained') for ax in axs.flat: example_plot(ax) .. image-sg:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_002.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title :srcset: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_002.png, /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_002_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 42-43 Below is a more complicated example using nested gridspecs. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 43-63 .. code-block:: Python fig = plt.figure(layout='constrained') 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-sg:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_003.png :alt: Title, Title, Title, Title, Title :srcset: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_003.png, /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_demo_constrained_layout_003_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 64-71 .. admonition:: References The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: - `matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpec` - `matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec` .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 2.600 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_demo_constrained_layout.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: demo_constrained_layout.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: demo_constrained_layout.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_