title: How to set the margins for a matplotlib figure?
body: <p>I am generating an on-screen figure that has two subplots: one is an image and the other is a graph. The margins are extremely large around the figures. </p>
  
  <p>How do I adjust the margins around the figures?</p>
  
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  <p>Most questions that I searched for involved saving images (bbox seemed perfect), and using axes instead of subplots for absolute positioning.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code I used to generate the figure:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def __init__(self, parent):
      wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
      ...
  
      self.figure, (self.picture, self.intensity) = \
          plt.subplots(nrows=2, figsize=(12, 5))
      self.figure.set_dpi(80)
      #self.figure.subplots_adjust(left=0.1, right=0.9, top=0.9, bottom=0.1)
      #self.picture.imshow(np.random.uniform()) #size=(5, 50)))
      self.intensity.plot(np.random.random()) #size=641))
  
      self.intensity.autoscale(axis='x', tight=True)
  </code></pre>