Setting the size of the plotting canvas in Matplotlib

Question

I would like Matplotlib/Pyplot to generate plots with a consistent canvas size. That is, the figures can well have different sizes to accomodate the axis descriptions, but t

Answer 1

You can specify the following settings in Matplotlib rc:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = [10, 10] # for square canvas
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.subplot.left'] = 0
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.subplot.bottom'] = 0
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.subplot.right'] = 1
matplotlib.rcParams['figure.subplot.top'] = 1