""" ===================== Simple Axes Divider 3 ===================== """ import mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_size as Size from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import Divider import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5.5, 4)) # the rect parameter will be ignore as we will set axes_locator rect = (0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8) ax = [fig.add_axes(rect, label="%d" % i) for i in range(4)] horiz = [Size.AxesX(ax[0]), Size.Fixed(.5), Size.AxesX(ax[1])] vert = [Size.AxesY(ax[0]), Size.Fixed(.5), Size.AxesY(ax[2])] # divide the axes rectangle into grid whose size is specified by horiz * vert divider = Divider(fig, rect, horiz, vert, aspect=False) ax[0].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=0, ny=0)) ax[1].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=2, ny=0)) ax[2].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=0, ny=2)) ax[3].set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=2, ny=2)) ax[0].set_xlim(0, 2) ax[1].set_xlim(0, 1) ax[0].set_ylim(0, 1) ax[2].set_ylim(0, 2) divider.set_aspect(1.) for ax1 in ax: ax1.tick_params(labelbottom=False, labelleft=False) plt.show()