Horizontal arrangement of subplots

An example showing horizontal arrangement of subplots with matplotlib.

Python source code: plot_subplot-horizontal.py

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure(figsize=(6, 4))
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.xticks(())
plt.yticks(())
plt.text(0.5, 0.5, 'subplot(2,1,1)', ha='center', va='center',
        size=24, alpha=.5)

plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.xticks(())
plt.yticks(())
plt.text(0.5, 0.5, 'subplot(2,1,2)', ha='center', va='center',
        size=24, alpha=.5)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()