Multiplot

Conveniently lay out matplotlib figures

If you're spending a lot of fighting with subplots, and the cold, symbolic syntax required to set-up grids, this is for you!

Multiplot lets you 'draw' the layout you want using a string, which makes it super simple to edit a layout. For example, you can super easily add or remove, hide, or resize the grid layout.

Usage

Multiplot exposes one function, multiplot

The first argument is a multiline string which diagrammatically describes the desired layout of your plot

The simplest grid would look like

multiplot('''
A
''')

If you want complicated grid layouts, you can do that as well

multiplot('''
AA
AA
BB
CC
CC
''')

Or for example this

multiplot('''
AAABB
CCCBB
''')

Note, make sure that your subfigures have a rectangular shape e.g.

multiplot('''
AA
BB
A''')

Won't work.

multiplot takes care of creating the layout using matplotlib's gridspec You can access each the matplotlib subplot objects by dictionary key access. The figure is exposed as well

fig, mpt = multiplot('''
AAABB
CCCBB
''')
mpt["A"].plot(...)
mpt["B"].set_title(...)

Any arguments you would normally pass to plt.figure, you can pass to multiplot

fig, mpt = multiplot(grid3, figsize=(10, 10), ...)