[Matplotlib-users] How to remove padding around the drawing?

[Marquardt, C. <col...@zm...>]

Hi,

when I'm plotting something in the most straightforward way, like

   from pylab import *
   plot([1,2,3])
   title('A title')
   xlabel('foo')
   ylabel('bar')
   savefig('test.png')

MPL produces an output file that has quite some padding around the
drawing. Is there a way to remove that padding and only save the
"true bounding box"?

I know I can adjust that manually, but that would probably require
constant tweaking if e.g. the font size of the labels and title
changes.

Cheers,
  Colin