I am trying to adjust the position of the axes in my matplotlib figure. Here are the two cells I'm running consequently in the jupyter notebook:
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4, 4))
ax = fig.add_axes([0.65, 0.1, 0.3, 0.8])
ax.patch.set_facecolor('red')
fig.patch.set_facecolor('blue')
The result however doesn't look as I expect it to:
I.e. both the figure aspect ratio and the position of the axes on it have been changed.
If, however, I change the backend from inline to notebook in the very first line (the %matplotlib magic) and run the same code (in a clean kernel), I do get the result as expected:
I am guessing there is some automatic adjustment function enabled in the inline backend, but I failed to find it. For example, I checked that matplotlib.rcParams['figure.autolayout'] parameter is set to False.
Is there any way to disable this feature for the inline backend?
I'm using matplotlib version 3.1.3. Also here's the jupyter --version output:
$ jupyter --version
jupyter core : 4.6.1
jupyter-notebook : 6.0.3
qtconsole : 4.6.0
ipython : 7.12.0
ipykernel : 5.1.4
jupyter client : 5.3.4
jupyter lab : 1.2.6
nbconvert : 5.6.1
ipywidgets : 7.5.1
nbformat : 5.0.4
traitlets : 4.3.3
