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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Adding GridSpec.subplots?","articleBody":"A variant on #13280, that I'm opening as an issue for now as there was quite some pushback against #13280 so I won't bother implementing this proposal if there's the same pushback against it :)\r\n\r\nI'm proposing to add GridSpec.subplots() (or .add_subplots(), depending on how we want to bikeshed it), such that\r\n```\r\naxs = plt.figure().add_gridspec(\r\n    nrows, ncols, height_ratios=..., width_ratios=...).subplots()\r\n```\r\nis equivalent to\r\n```\r\naxs = plt.figure().subplots(\r\n    nrows, ncols, gridspec_kw={\"height_ratios\": ..., \"width_ratios\": ...})\r\n```\r\nthe goal being just to get rid of the somewhat awkward `gridspec_kw` (it's a bunch of (kw)args passed down to another function, so we should just directly call that other function instead).\r\n\r\nThoughts?\r\n\r\nThis would also fix #1460, I'd say (as `subplot_kw` could be directly passed to GridSpec.subplots`).\r\n\r\nmpl master.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2019-05-07T14:18:35.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/14155/matplotlib/issues/14155"}