Barchart sizing of text & barwidth with matplotlib - python

Question

I'm creating a bar chart with matplotlib-0.91 (for the first time) but the y axis labels are being cut off. If I increase the width of the figure enough they eventually show up completely but then the output is not the correct size.

Any way to deal with this?

Answer 1

I think I ran into a similar problem.

See if this helps adjusting the label's font size:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm

fontsize2use = 10

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))
plt.xticks(fontsize=fontsize2use)  
plt.yticks(fontsize=fontsize2use)    
fontprop = fm.FontProperties(size=fontsize2use)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.set_xlabel('XaxisLabel')
ax.set_ylabel('YaxisLabel')
.
<main plotting code>
.
ax.legend(loc=0, prop=fontprop)     

For the bar width, if your using pyplot.bar it looks like you can play with the width attribute.

Answer 2

Take a look at subplots_adjust, or just use axes([left,bottom,width,height]).