Matplotlib: removes whitespace with savefig but not with show

Question

I have found many similar questions and tried several suggestions but nothing seems to work. My plot as shown on screen has too much unneeded whitespace around it, while the image file saved with savefig correctly trims it out. This is how it's displayed: while the following is the save image file (and what I'd also like being displayed): This is my code:

wc = WordCloud(
    width=1920, height=1080, max_words=50, background_color="white"
).generate_from_frequencies(dict(data))

# plot
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear")
plt.axis("off")
fig1 = plt.gcf()  # save the current figure
plt.show()  # because this generates a new picture
fig1.savefig(
    "data/topmentions.png", bbox_inches="tight"
)  # bbox_inches="tight" removes white space around the figure

So the question is: How do I get ris of the white space around the wordcloud when showing it on scree, just like what happens in the saved figure?

Sorry for not being clear enough. Probably something is lost in translation (I'm not a native english speaker a you can probably guess from my wordcloud). Edited the question to make it more explicit. — Robert Alexander, Jan 19 '23 at 12:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '23 at 12:16

You can use subplots_adjust to remove margins around your cloud:

wc = WordCloud(
    width=1920, height=1080, max_words=50, background_color="white"
).generate_from_frequencies(dict(data))

# plot
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear")
plt.axis("off")
fig1 = plt.gcf()  # save the current figure
#plt.tight_layout(pad=0)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0,
                    bottom=0,
                    right=1,
                    top=1)
plt.show()  # because this generates a new picture
fig1.savefig(
    "data/topmentions.png", bbox_inches="tight"
)

Alternatively use plt.tight_layout(pad=0)

Matplotlib: removes whitespace with savefig but not with show

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