How to get subplots of matplotlib Figure?

Question

I know that I can use plt.subplots() to get handles for Figure and subplots at the same time, but how to get all subplots (or specific subplot) of an existing Figure instance?

Answer 1

If figure is a Figure instance you can get the axes inside it via

allaxes = fig.get_axes()

The return of this (allaxes) is a list of all the axes inside the figure. Which subplot is which in this list, you need to know from the figure or some other source.