How do you change the size of figures drawn with matplotlib?

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tatwright picture tatwright · Dec 1, 2008 · Viewed 3.2M times · Source

How do you change the size of figure drawn with matplotlib?

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Jouni K. Seppänen picture Jouni K. Seppänen · Mar 12, 2009

figure tells you the call signature:

from matplotlib.pyplot import figure
figure(num=None, figsize=(8, 6), dpi=80, facecolor='w', edgecolor='k')

figure(figsize=(1,1)) would create an inch-by-inch image, which would be 80-by-80 pixels unless you also give a different dpi argument.

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