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# Demo Tight Layout

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import itertools
    import warnings

    fontsizes = itertools.cycle([8, 16, 24, 32])

    def example_plot(ax):
        ax.plot([1, 2])
        ax.set_xlabel('x-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes))
        ax.set_ylabel('y-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes))
        ax.set_title('Title', fontsize=next(fontsizes))

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    example_plot(ax)
    plt.tight_layout()

    fig, ((ax1, ax2), (ax3, ax4)) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)
    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    example_plot(ax3)
    example_plot(ax4)
    plt.tight_layout()

    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=1)
    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    plt.tight_layout()

    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2)
    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    plt.tight_layout()

    fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=3)
    for row in axes:
        for ax in row:
            example_plot(ax)
    plt.tight_layout()

    fig = plt.figure()

    ax1 = plt.subplot(221)
    ax2 = plt.subplot(223)
    ax3 = plt.subplot(122)

    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    example_plot(ax3)

    plt.tight_layout()

    fig = plt.figure()

    ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 0))
    ax2 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 1), colspan=2)
    ax3 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 0), colspan=2, rowspan=2)
    ax4 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 2), rowspan=2)

    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    example_plot(ax3)
    example_plot(ax4)

    plt.tight_layout()

    plt.show()

    fig = plt.figure()

    import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec

    gs1 = gridspec.GridSpec(3, 1)
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[0])
    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[1])
    ax3 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[2])

    example_plot(ax1)
    example_plot(ax2)
    example_plot(ax3)

    with warnings.catch_warnings():
        warnings.simplefilter("ignore", UserWarning)
        # This raises warnings since tight layout cannot
        # handle gridspec automatically. We are going to
        # do that manually so we can filter the warning.
        gs1.tight_layout(fig, rect=[None, None, 0.45, None])

    gs2 = gridspec.GridSpec(2, 1)
    ax4 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[0])
    ax5 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[1])

    example_plot(ax4)
    example_plot(ax5)

    with warnings.catch_warnings():
        # This raises warnings since tight layout cannot
        # handle gridspec automatically. We are going to
        # do that manually so we can filter the warning.
        warnings.simplefilter("ignore", UserWarning)
        gs2.tight_layout(fig, rect=[0.45, None, None, None])

    # now match the top and bottom of two gridspecs.
    top = min(gs1.top, gs2.top)
    bottom = max(gs1.bottom, gs2.bottom)

    gs1.update(top=top, bottom=bottom)
    gs2.update(top=top, bottom=bottom)

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 1.182 seconds)

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