Remove padding from matplotlib plotting

Question

I am plotting an image in matplotlib, and it keeps giving me some padding. This is what I have tried:

def field_plot():
    x = [i[0] for i in path]
    y = [i[1         


        

Answer 1

All previous approaches didn't quite work for me, they all left some padding around the figure.

The following lines successfully removed the white or transparent padding that was left:

plt.axis('off')
ax = plt.gca()
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.NullLocator())
ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.NullLocator())
plt.savefig(IMG_DIR + 'match.png', pad_inches=0, bbox_inches='tight', transparent=True)