Thread: [matplotlib-devel] Re: [Matplotlib-users] Adjusting the size of a subplot

You are looking for
matplotlib.axes.Subplot.set_position
set_position(self, pos) method of matplotlib.axes.Subplot instance
 Set the axes position with pos = [left, bottom, width, height]
 in relative 0,1 coords
 ACCEPTS: len(4) sequence of floats
axes_top.set_position([left, bottom, width, height])
etc.
On Friday 31 March 2006 08:38, Andrew B. Young wrote:
> Hello:
>
> How does one go about controlling the size of a subplot?
> I've got--
>
> figure = matplotlib.pylab.Figure()
> canvas = FigureCanvas( figure )
> axes_top = figure.add_subplot(211)
> axes_bottom = figure.add_subplot(212)
>
> and I want the _top to occupy 4/5 of the png
> and the _bottom to occupy the remaining 1/5.
>
> Thanks!
> Andrew

>>>>> "Malte" == Malte Marquarding <Mal...@cs...> writes:
 Malte> You are looking for matplotlib.axes.Subplot.set_position
That will work, but what you are really looking for is to not use
subplot at all, but rather axes; a Subplot is just an Axes that happens
to lie on a regular grid
 axes_top = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.8, 0.6])
 axes_bottom = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.15])
If you want the two axes to touch and share and xaxis, see
examples/ganged_plots.py. There are nice tricks you can do to share
an xaxis so for example when you pan/zoom in one the xaxis in both
plots move together; see examples/shared_axis_demo.py
JDH