Improve subplot size/spacing with many subplots in matplotlib

Question

Very similar to this question but with the difference that my figure can be as large as it needs to be.

I need to generate a whole bunch of vertically-stacked plots in matplotlib. The result will be saved using figsave and viewed on a webpage, so I don't care how tall the final image is as long as the subplots are spaced so they don't overlap.

No matter how big I allow the figure to be, the subplots always seem to overlap.

My code currently looks like

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import my_other_module  titles, x_lists, y_lists = my_other_module.get_data()  fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,60)) for i, y_list in enumerate(y_lists):     plt.subplot(len(titles), 1, i)     plt.xlabel("Some X label")     plt.ylabel("Some Y label")     plt.title(titles[i])     plt.plot(x_lists[i],y_list) fig.savefig('out.png', dpi=100) 

Answer 1

Try using plt.tight_layout

As a quick example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=4, ncols=4) fig.tight_layout() # Or equivalently,  "plt.tight_layout()"  plt.show() 

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Without Tight Layout

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With Tight Layout