[Matplotlib-users] align title of subplot with ylabel

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Dear all,

I'm struggling with the following problem plotting my data:

I have a figure with two panels next to each other, which I want to
label 'A' and 'B'. I want to left-justify my panel labels, but not to
the box that contains the plot, but to the y-axis label. I played around
with 'text()' and 'title()', but did not find a good solution except for
giving the coordinates manually to 'text()'. This would be very
inconvenient though, because I have many different plots on different
scales.
Here is what I tried:

###Code
import scipy
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(121)
plt.plot(scipy.sin(scipy.arange(1,100, 0.001)))
plt.xlabel('xlabel')
plt.ylabel("ylabel")
plt.text(0,1,"A", fontsize=14, transform=ax.transAxes)  

ax = fig.add_subplot(122)
plt.plot(scipy.cos(scipy.arange(1,100, 0.001)))
plt.text(0,1,"B", fontsize=14, transform=ax.transAxes)
plt.xlabel('xlabel')
###End Code

So the texts 'A' and 'B' should be a little bit higher and more to the
left. The 'A' I want to align with the y-axis label of the left plot,
the 'B' with the values of the y-axis of the right plot. 

I hope my question is clear, I will appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance,

Hannes