Change figure size and figure format in matplotlib [duplicate]

Question

I want to obtain fig1 exactly of 4 by 3 inch sized, and in tiff format correcting the program below:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  list1 = [3,4,5,6,9,12] list2 = [8,12,14,15,17,20]  plt.plot(list1, list2) plt.savefig('fig1.png', dpi = 300) plt.close() 

Answer 1

You can set the figure size if you explicitly create the figure with

plt.figure(figsize=(3,4)) 

You need to set figure size before calling plt.plot() To change the format of the saved figure just change the extension in the file name. However, I don't know if any of matplotlib backends support tiff