I use a trick to draw a colorbar whose height matches the master axes. The code is like import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable import numpy as np ax = plt.subplot(111) im = ax.imshow(np.arange(100).reshape((10,10))) # create an axes on the right side of ax. The width of cax will be 5% # of ax and the padding between cax and ax will be fixed at 0.05 inch. divider = make_axes_locatable(ax) cax = divider.append_axes("right", size="5%", pad=0.05) plt.colorbar(im, cax=cax) This trick works good. However, since a new axis is appended, the current instance of the figure becomes cax - the appended axis. As a result, if one performs operations like plt.text(0,0,'whatever') the text will be drawn on cax instead of ax - the axis to which im belongs. Meanwhile, gcf().axes shows both axes. My question is: How to make the current axis instance (returned by gca()) the original axis to which im belongs. Continue reading...
