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# Make Room For Ylabel Using Axesgrid

    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_divider import make_axes_area_auto_adjustable

    if __name__ == "__main__":

        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

        def ex1():
            plt.figure(1)
            ax = plt.axes([0, 0, 1, 1])
            #ax = plt.subplot(111)

            ax.set_yticks([0.5])
            ax.set_yticklabels(["very long label"])

            make_axes_area_auto_adjustable(ax)

        def ex2():

            plt.figure(2)
            ax1 = plt.axes([0, 0, 1, 0.5])
            ax2 = plt.axes([0, 0.5, 1, 0.5])

            ax1.set_yticks([0.5])
            ax1.set_yticklabels(["very long label"])
            ax1.set_ylabel("Y label")

            ax2.set_title("Title")

            make_axes_area_auto_adjustable(ax1, pad=0.1, use_axes=[ax1, ax2])
            make_axes_area_auto_adjustable(ax2, pad=0.1, use_axes=[ax1, ax2])

        def ex3():

            fig = plt.figure(3)
            ax1 = plt.axes([0, 0, 1, 1])
            divider = make_axes_locatable(ax1)

            ax2 = divider.new_horizontal("100%", pad=0.3, sharey=ax1)
            ax2.tick_params(labelleft="off")
            fig.add_axes(ax2)

            divider.add_auto_adjustable_area(use_axes=[ax1], pad=0.1,
                                             adjust_dirs=["left"])
            divider.add_auto_adjustable_area(use_axes=[ax2], pad=0.1,
                                             adjust_dirs=["right"])
            divider.add_auto_adjustable_area(use_axes=[ax1, ax2], pad=0.1,
                                             adjust_dirs=["top", "bottom"])

            ax1.set_yticks([0.5])
            ax1.set_yticklabels(["very long label"])

            ax2.set_title("Title")
            ax2.set_xlabel("X - Label")

        ex1()
        ex2()
        ex3()

        plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.167 seconds)

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