René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"tight_layout + lots of subplots + long ylabels inverts yaxis","articleBody":"When plotting  a lot of subplots (here 6), with long y-labels *and* tight_layout, the y-axis is reverted.\r\nIn this example, it is particularly striking as I am plotting histograms.\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport numpy as np\r\n\r\nalphas = [0.001, 0.1, 1, 10, 1000, 10000]\r\nX = np.random.randn(len(alphas), 1000)\r\n\r\nfig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=len(alphas),  ncols=2)\r\nfig.set_tight_layout(True)\r\nfor i, alpha in enumerate(alphas):\r\n    ax = axes[i, 0]\r\n    ax.hist(X[i])\r\n    ax.set_xlabel(\"Number of features\", fontweight=\"bold\")\r\n    ax.set_ylabel(\"Number of genes\", fontweight=\"bold\")\r\n\r\n    ax = axes[i, 1]\r\n    ax.plot(sorted(X[i]))\r\n    ax.set_ylabel(\"Number of genes\", fontweight=\"bold\")\r\n```\r\n\r\n![mpl_bug](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/184798/22847757/191f0c3a-efa4-11e6-9b64-2b9a098b754c.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\nRemoving the tight layout, the labels collapse, but at least the plots are oriented the correct way.\r\n\r\n![mpl_bug_wo_tight_layout](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/184798/22847782/421d5704-efa4-11e6-8956-91f8008c95e5.png)\r\n\r\nMatplotlib should ~~either raise a proper error~~ raise a proper warning, or plot the histograms in the proper order.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\r\nMatplotlib 2.0.0\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/NelleV","@type":"Person","name":"NelleV"},"datePublished":"2017-02-10T23:19:41.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/8062/matplotlib/issues/8062"}