[FIXED] Do all matplotlib figures have to be square?

Issue

It seems the only way I can make the figure a rectangle (to save vertical space), is by skewing the image which makes all text on the screen skew also.

How can I make the height of the figure smaller, without touching the width, or the text presentation?

Solution

The figsize keyword argument can be passed when creating a matplotlib figure using plt.figure() as shown below.

The figsize keyword argument states the figure size in inches. You pass a 2-item tuple of the form (width, height). This allows you to choose the size (and hence aspect ratio) of your figure before you plot any data. Below I have created a figure with width=16in and height=4in.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0, 10, 1000)
y = np.sin(x)

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(16,4))
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)

ax.plot(x,y)
ax.set_xlabel('x')
ax.set_ylabel('y')

plt.show()

Answered By - Ffisegydd