René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Should constrained_layout work as plt.figure() argument?","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nMight be a documentation issue. The [constrainedlayout_guide](https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide.html) says\r\n\r\n\u003e constrained_layout needs to be activated before any axes are added to a figure. Two ways of doing so are\r\n\u003e * using the respective argument to `subplots()` or `figure()`,\r\n\u003e * [...]\r\n\r\nHowever, `fig = plt.figure(constrained_layout=True)` does not seem to have any effect.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug.\r\nPlease make sure to minimize the number of dependencies required, and provide\r\nany necessary plotted data.\r\nAvoid using threads, as Matplotlib is (explicitly) not thread-safe.--\u003e\r\n\r\n```\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n\r\ndef example_plot(ax, fontsize=12):\r\n    ax.plot([1, 2])\r\n    ax.set_xlabel('x-label', fontsize=fontsize)\r\n    ax.set_ylabel('y-label', fontsize=fontsize)\r\n    ax.set_title('Title', fontsize=fontsize)\r\n\r\nfig = plt.figure(constrained_layout=True)\r\nax1 = fig.add_subplot(211)\r\nax2 = fig.add_subplot(212)\r\n\r\nfor ax in [ax1, ax2]:\r\n    example_plot(ax, fontsize=24)\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23121882/70066708-69855680-15ed-11ea-980e-c1ea91601c1d.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A description of the expected outcome from the code snippet--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If this used to work in an earlier version of Matplotlib, please note the version it used to work on--\u003e\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23121882/70066780-8ae64280-15ed-11ea-9ea8-3c6b15a2b9da.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: Windows 8.1\r\n  * Matplotlib version: 3.1.0\r\n  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): Qt5Agg\r\n  * Python version: 3.7\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ImportanceOfBeingErnest","@type":"Person","name":"ImportanceOfBeingErnest"},"datePublished":"2019-12-03T15:56:43.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/15821/matplotlib/issues/15821"}