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# Simple Axes Divider 2

    import mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_size as Size
    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import Divider
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig1 = plt.figure(1, (5.5, 4.))

    # the rect parameter will be ignore as we will set axes_locator
    rect = (0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8)
    ax = [fig1.add_axes(rect, label="%d" % i) for i in range(4)]

    horiz = [Size.Scaled(1.5), Size.Fixed(.5), Size.Scaled(1.),
             Size.Scaled(.5)]

    vert = [Size.Scaled(1.), Size.Fixed(.5), Size.Scaled(1.5)]

    # divide the axes rectangle into grid whose size is specified by horiz * vert
    divider = Divider(fig1, rect, horiz, vert, aspect=False)

    ax[0].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=0, ny=0))
    ax[1].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=0, ny=2))
    ax[2].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=2, ny=2))
    ax[3].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=2, nx1=4, ny=0))

    for ax1 in ax:
        plt.setp(ax1.get_xticklabels()+ax1.get_yticklabels(),
                 visible=False)

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.259 seconds)

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