How to make pylab.savefig() save image for 'maximized' window instead of default size

Question

I am using pylab in matplotlib to create a plot and save the plot to an image file. However, when I save the image using pylab.savefig( image_name ), I find tha

Answer 1

I had this exact problem and this worked:

plt.savefig(output_dir + '/xyz.png', bbox_inches='tight')

Here is the documentation:

[https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.savefig.html][1]