Delete a subplot

Question

I'm trying to figure out a way of deleting (dynamically) subplots in matplotlib. I see they have a remove method, but I get the error

NotImplementedError: cannot remove artist 

I'm surprised that I can't find this anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this?

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt  fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,3)  axs[0].plot([1,2],[3,4]) axs[2].plot([0,1],[2,3])  plt.draw() plt.tight_layout() 

Answer 1

Use fig.delaxes or plt.delaxes to remove unwanted subplots

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,3) axs[0].plot([1,2],[3,4]) axs[2].plot([0,1],[2,3])  fig.delaxes(axs[1])  plt.draw() plt.tight_layout()