Merge pull request #5683 from mdboom/tight-ticks

Include outward ticks in bounding box

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

@@ -567,7 +567,11 @@ def get_window_extent(self, *args, **kwargs):
         get the axes bounding box in display space; *args* and
         *kwargs* are empty
         """
-        return self.bbox
+        bbox = self.bbox
+        x_pad = self.xaxis.get_tick_padding()
+        y_pad = self.yaxis.get_tick_padding()
+        return mtransforms.Bbox([[bbox.x0 - x_pad, bbox.y0 - y_pad],
+                                 [bbox.x1 + x_pad, bbox.y1 + y_pad]])
 
     def _init_axis(self):
         "move this out of __init__ because non-separable axes don't use it"

lib/matplotlib/axis.py

@@ -169,6 +169,20 @@ def apply_tickdir(self, tickdir):
         """
         pass
 
+    def get_tickdir(self):
+        return self._tickdir
+
+    def get_tick_padding(self):
+        """
+        Get the length of the tick outside of the axes.
+        """
+        padding = {
+            'in': 0.0,
+            'inout': 0.5,
+            'out': 1.0
+        }
+        return self._size * padding[self._tickdir]
+
     def get_children(self):
         children = [self.tick1line, self.tick2line,
                     self.gridline, self.label1, self.label2]
@@ -349,13 +363,11 @@ def apply_tickdir(self, tickdir):
 
         if self._tickdir == 'in':
             self._tickmarkers = (mlines.TICKUP, mlines.TICKDOWN)
-            self._pad = self._base_pad
         elif self._tickdir == 'inout':
             self._tickmarkers = ('|', '|')
-            self._pad = self._base_pad + self._size / 2.
         else:
             self._tickmarkers = (mlines.TICKDOWN, mlines.TICKUP)
-            self._pad = self._base_pad + self._size
+        self._pad = self._base_pad + self.get_tick_padding()
         self.stale = True
 
     def _get_text1(self):
@@ -485,13 +497,11 @@ def apply_tickdir(self, tickdir):
 
         if self._tickdir == 'in':
             self._tickmarkers = (mlines.TICKRIGHT, mlines.TICKLEFT)
-            self._pad = self._base_pad
         elif self._tickdir == 'inout':
             self._tickmarkers = ('_', '_')
-            self._pad = self._base_pad + self._size / 2.
         else:
             self._tickmarkers = (mlines.TICKLEFT, mlines.TICKRIGHT)
-            self._pad = self._base_pad + self._size
+        self._pad = self._base_pad + self.get_tick_padding()
         self.stale = True
 
     # how far from the y axis line the right of the ticklabel are
@@ -1095,6 +1105,16 @@ def get_tightbbox(self, renderer):
         else:
             return None
 
+    def get_tick_padding(self):
+        values = []
+        if len(self.majorTicks):
+            values.append(self.majorTicks[0].get_tick_padding())
+        if len(self.minorTicks):
+            values.append(self.minorTicks[0].get_tick_padding())
+        if len(values):
+            return max(values)
+        return 0.0
+
     @allow_rasterization
     def draw(self, renderer, *args, **kwargs):
         'Draw the axis lines, grid lines, tick lines and labels'