Re: [matplotlib-devel] gca() returns Axes

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> Correction: now I can't reproduce what I thought I was seeing; plt.gca()
> is returning an AxesSubplot as it should.  Maybe the problem is in the
> axes_grid1 toolkit.  It is appearing in the last figure of the
> tight_layout tutorial in the docs.

For axes which uses axes_locator, tight_layout works if the
axes_locator have associated subplotspec.
And, only allowing instance of SubplotBase is too strict.

The PR below addresses this issue.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1170

And it will work again for the axes_grid1 cases.

Regards,

-JJ