[Matplotlib-users] Making space for a long legend outside of a barchart

[Martin M. <mmo...@fo...>]

Hi,
  I am having trouble to get space allocated for a long legend text,
lets say spanning 2/3 - 3/4 of the whole output. I would like to have
stacked barchart as 1st subplot and the place of remaining 3 subplots
to be actually allocated by the legend. Alternatively, could I get the
legend saved into a separate figure?

Or could the space for legend text be allocated automatically minimizing
output figure size? For example, the width would be 1120px while height
be multiples of 840px (840 for each subplot)?

  Attached is a quick example. It shows also that I tried tight_layout()
but wasn't successful with this either. I would be glad for some help,
ideally converting the whole thing into an object-oriented approach.
I am generating several figures in a row and would like to clear()/del()
any previously used data ASAP.


Thank you,
Martin
Am using mpl-1.2.2