pytutorial/matplotlib/subplot

subplot

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The goal

Questions to David Rotermund

matplotlib.pyplot.subplot

matplotlib.pyplot.subplot(*args, **kwargs)

Add an Axes to the current figure or retrieve an existing Axes.

This is a wrapper of Figure.add_subplot which provides additional behavior when working with the implicit API (see the notes section).

*args : int, (int, int, index), or SubplotSpec, default: (1, 1, 1)

The position of the subplot described by one of

• Three integers (nrows, ncols, index). The subplot will take the index position on a grid with nrows rows and ncols columns. index starts at 1 in the upper left corner and increases to the right. index can also be a two-tuple specifying the (first, last) indices (1-based, and including last) of the subplot, e.g., fig.add_subplot(3, 1, (1, 2)) makes a subplot that spans the upper 2/3 of the figure.
• A 3-digit integer. The digits are interpreted as if given separately as three single-digit integers, i.e. fig.add_subplot(235) is the same as fig.add_subplot(2, 3, 5). Note that this can only be used if there are no more than 9 subplots.

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

rng = np.random.default_rng()

plt.figure(1)
plt.subplot(2, 2, 1)
plt.imshow(rng.random((10, 100)))
plt.title("A")
plt.subplot(2, 2, 2)
plt.imshow(rng.random((5, 10)))
plt.title("B")
plt.subplot(2, 2, 3)
plt.imshow(rng.random((50, 20)))
plt.title("C")
plt.subplot(2, 2, 4)
plt.imshow(rng.random((100, 200)))
plt.title("D")
plt.show()