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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Colorbar should support location kwarg that sets both orientation and ticklocation","articleBody":"### Problem\n\nWhen colorbar autocreates an Axes, one can pass `location`, which also sets the colorbar's orientation and the ticklocation (left for a left colorbar, right for a right colorbar, etc.).  When one instead passes a manually created Axes (e.g. using inset_axes, as suggested by the colorbar_placement.py example), the `location` kwarg is not accepted (because things are directly passed to the Colorbar class); one needs to explicitly set `orientation` and `ticklocation` (the latter is not even documented by `Figure.colorbar`):\r\n```python\r\nfrom pylab import *\r\nsfs = figure(layout=\"constrained\").subfigures(1, 2)\r\nax = sfs[0].add_subplot()\r\nim = ax.imshow([[0, 1], [2, 3]])\r\nax.figure.colorbar(im, location=\"top\")\r\nax = sfs[1].add_subplot()\r\nim = ax.imshow([[0, 1], [2, 3]])\r\nax.figure.colorbar(im, cax=ax.inset_axes([0, 1.05, 1, 0.05]),\r\n                   orientation=\"horizontal\", ticklocation=\"top\")\r\nshow()\r\n```\n\n### Proposed solution\n\nAdd a `location` kwarg to the Colorbar constructor which sets both `orientation` and `ticklocation`, and is mutually exclusive with them.\r\n... or at least better document the workaround.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2022-03-20T14:04:55.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/22676/matplotlib/issues/22676"}