Alternatives to tight_layout()

Question

Calling `tight_layout()` in matplotlib can lead to: `RunTimeError: "CGContextRef is NULL"`. I have suffered from this error myself with several backends (including `Agg`) in MacOSX and Linux. If I want to achieve the same, or hopefully close enough, effect, without running into these errors, what are my options?

Accepted Answer

While not the same problem, I worked around issues I was having with `tight_layout()` by adding this to the start of my script instead.

```
matplotlib.rcParams.update({'figure.autolayout': True})
```

Alternatives to tight_layout()

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