Say that I created a Figure with

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()

and then AFTER I created I want to change its layout (I am aware that I can instantiate the Figure object by passing the argument layout to plt.figure, e.g. fig = plt.figure(layout="constrained"), which is not what I want).

So far, I know that one could do

fig.tight_layout()

to set a tight layout, but what if one to set a "constrained" layout?

Furthermore, other than "tight" and "constrained" what are the other possible available layouts?

CodePudding user response：

You can use the fig.set_layout_engine() with matplolib-3.6.2 :

As follows:

fig = plt.figure()
fig.set_layout_engine('constrained')

The possible layouts as per documentation are: 'constrained', 'compressed', 'tight'.