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Description
I'm trying to understand why sometimes I get a ValueError when using tight_layout.
The code of matplotlib is too complicated for me, but I'm trying to see what's happening using pdb.
It seems that the problem comes from what get_tight_layout_figure returns:
(Pdb) l
379 subplot_list=subplot_list,
380 ax_bbox_list=ax_bbox_list,
381 pad=pad, h_pad=h_pad, w_pad=w_pad,
382 rect=(left, bottom, right, top))
383
384 -> return kwargs
(Pdb) p kwargs
{'top': 0.43099934895833336, 'right': 0.97750000000000004, 'bottom': 0.56900065104166675, 'left': 0.16939941406250003}
I guess this in turns comes from what happens in auto_adjust_subplotpars, in the output of _get_bottom and _get_top:
(Pdb) p ax_bbox.ymin
0.3716666666666667
(Pdb) p tight_bbox.ymin
-0.16733398437499999
(Pdb) p ax_bbox.ymin - tight_bbox.ymin
0.53900065104166672
(Pdb) p tight_bbox.ymax
1.1673339843749999
(Pdb) p ax_bbox.ymax
0.6283333333333333
(Pdb) p tight_bbox.ymax - ax_bbox.ymax
0.53900065104166661
I don't know what ax_bbox and tight_bbox exactly are.
I just guess the algorithm to determine the figure properties do not play well with the data I want to plot. Can this be considered a bug ?