physically stretch plot in horizontal direction in python

Question

I want a simple x,y plot created with matplotlib stretched physically in x-direction. The intention is to get a result were it is easier for me to detect features in the signal. So I don't want to change any scales or values or limits. Just change the distance between two gridpoint in my output file... I want to do that on four subplots which should have the same size afterwards. Thanks in advance... I tried for hours now and I think one of you could probably help me... David Zwicker already solved my problem in this special case, thanks a lot for that, but in general... If I plot 2 subplots like in this code: ``` fig = plt.figure() ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,2,1) plot(u_av,z) ax2 = fig.add_subplot(1,2,2) plot(pgrd_av,z) clf() ``` and want to stretch only one of them. What can I do?

Accepted Answer

You can directly add axes to the canvas at an arbitrary position with `plt.axes()`. For instance:

```
ax1 = plt.axes([0, 0, 3, 0.5])
ax2 = plt.axes([0, 0.6, 1, 1])
```

physically stretch plot in horizontal direction in python

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