Re: [Matplotlib-users] dynamically add subplots to figure

[Tom V. <to...@so...>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 07:33, John Hunter<jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Tom Vaughan <to...@so...> wrote:
>> Is it possible to add subplots to a figure if I don't know in advance
>> how many subplots I need to add?
>>
>> What I do now is I call add_subplot like add_subplot(i, 1, i) where i
>> is 1 initially, and just increases by 1 on each call. This almost
>> works. Except the first plot takes up the whole figure, the second
>> plot is placed on top of the bottom half of the first plot, etc. Is
>> there a way to "resize" the plots when a subplot is added? Or how
>> would I "re-plot" the previous subplots?
>
> See the Axes.change_geometry command
>
>  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.SubplotBase.change_geometry

twinx() does not return an axes that contains the change_geometry
method. How then can I do the equivalent on this axes? Calling twinx()
again on the original axes after change_geometry() has been called
does not do the trick. Thanks.

-Tom