Thanks for reporting this. I opened a pull request that I believe fixes this problem.
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/472 Please test this if you can. Depending on your need, you may work around this by calling all the set_position method always after all the GridSpec.update call. Regards, -JJ On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.muel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > In the following script, it seems to me, > that GridSpec does not work as expected. > ---------------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/env python > # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 : > # adapted from http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/gridspec.html > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > from matplotlib.gridspec import GridSpec > > fig = plt.figure() > > gs1 = GridSpec(3,3) > gs1.update( left=0.10, right=0.45 ) > ax1 = fig.add_subplot( gs1[ 0:1, 0:1 ] ) > ax1.set_position( [0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.8] ) > > gs2 = GridSpec(3,3) > gs2.update( left=0.55, right=0.95 ) > ax2 = fig.add_subplot( gs2[ 1:3, 1:3 ] ) > ax2.set_position( [0.5, 0.1, 0.2, 0.8] ) > > plt.show() > ---------------------------------------- > > First I put an Axes ax1 with gs1. > For some reason, I want to adjust ax1 with ax1.set_position. > (In the real application only fine adjust) > If I run the script only to this point it works as expected. > > Next I put another Axes ax2 with a new GridSpec gs2. > With the command gs2.update() the Axes ax1 will be put back > to the place where it would be without ax1.set_position(). > > Is this behavior to be explained? > > > > Thanks > -- > Kurt Mueller > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users