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<div class="">On Dec 17, 2017, at 3:43 AM, Johann Rohwer <<a href="mailto:jr@sun.ac.za" class="">jr@sun.ac.za</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/12/17 23:54, Heiland, Randy wrote:<br class="">
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<pre wrap="" class="">Any advice for wanting to do a grid of subplots, with fig.tight_layout(), and with "extra” space at the top for a suptitle? As this simple script demonstrates, there isn’t really any space left at the top after doing tight_layout:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(12,4))
ax0, ax1 = axes.flatten()
fig.tight_layout()
plt.suptitle('This is a somewhat long figure title', y=0.99, fontsize=12)
plt.show()
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You can adjust the space individually for left, top, right, and bottom, as well as horizontally and vertically between the subplots, with fig.subplots_adjust().
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</tt><tt class=""> wspace=None, hspace=None)</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
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</tt><tt class=""> left = 0.125 # the left side of the subplots of the figure</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""> right = 0.9 # the right side of the subplots of the figure</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""> bottom = 0.1 # the bottom of the subplots of the figure</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""> top = 0.9 # the top of the subplots of the figure</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""> wspace = 0.2 # the amount of width reserved for blank space between subplots</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""> hspace = 0.2 # the amount of height reserved for white space between subplots</tt><tt class=""><br class="">
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<div>Thanks very much, Johann. I’d actually played around with subplots_adjust previously and gave up. However, your email nudged me back to it and I do indeed have pretty good results now. And for the record, one would use this *instead* of the tight_layout,
not in addition to it.</div>
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<div>Randy</div>
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