Re: [Matplotlib-users] mpl_toolkits axes & grid

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Christian Meesters <mee...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is quite some time ago since I was intensively using MPL. Perhaps I
> will not get the terminology right anymore. And now I hope to get some
> pointer for this particular problem:
>
> I would like to arange some line plots using a grid from left to right in
> a single plot / figure instance. Each of these plots is created from
> vectors (numpy arrays) of a different length. If I would place subplots of
> equal size to place these individual plots from left to right, all will
> appear with a different "stretch/squeeze".
>
> My question now is: Is there a way to place different subplots of
> different sizes automatically? For all my plots I will encounter different
> number of individual line plots of different size.
>
> My approach so far (pseudocode):
>
> from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import Grid
> import pylab as plt
>
> fig  = plt.figure(1, (5.5, 3.5))
> grid = Grid(fig, 111, # similar to subplot(111)
>                  nrows_ncols = (1, number_of_subplots),
>                  axes_pad = 0.1,
>                  add_all=True,
>                  label_mode = "L",
>                  )
>
> for index in xrange(number_of_subplots):
>     grid[index].???
>
> And now I just do not know how to get any further? How will I get the
> necessary extension for each subfigure/plot? Which is the most efficient
> way to accomplish all this? Should I import a different class, other than
> Grid?
>
>
So, are you wanting them to all have the same x and y coordinates, or maybe
you want the aspect ratio to be the same?

I am not exactly quite sure what you mean by "extension".

Ben Root