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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"figure.clf() and subplots_adjust","articleBody":"This might not be a bug but I doubt that it is an intended behavior.  `figure.clf() ` don't change the subplot parameters to any default values so it is not enough to do  `figure.clf() ` when testing to plot with or without for example  `tight_layout `. This is easy to fix by adding for example:\r\n```\r\nkeys = ('left', 'right', 'bottom','top','wspace','hspace')\r\nsubplots_default = {key : rcParams['figure.subplot.' + key] for key in keys}\r\nself.subplotpars.update(**subplots_default)\r\n```\r\nto figure.clf()\r\n\r\nWhen I looked into this I also found that the docstrings for  `subplots_adjust ` and  `SubplotParams ` are kind of confusing and not really correct. The default is, except in  `SuplotParams.__ini__ ` (that most people probably newer use directly), not the rc parameters that it seems but the actual attributes in the  `SuplotParams ` object. So it is not trivial to start all over with the default rc variables after a change in the subplotparameters by for example tight_layout. \r\n\r\n- Would it be good to add an option in subplot_adjust to adjust to the default parameters? \r\n- Would it be good to add a get function for the subplotparameters? \r\n\r\nThe documentation should probably be changed anyway. Are there any method to avoid writing almost the same things several times?  `figure.subplots_adjust ` and `plt.subplots_adjust` should have more or less the exact same docstring and the  `SuplotParams ` should also have a similar one.\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/fredrik-1","@type":"Person","name":"fredrik-1"},"datePublished":"2018-04-16T16:15:32.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/11059/matplotlib/issues/11059"}