.. _axes_grid-demo_colorbar_with_inset_locator:

axes_grid example code: demo_colorbar_with_inset_locator.py
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    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    
    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import inset_axes
    
    fig = plt.figure(1, [6, 3])
    
    # first subplot
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121)
    
    axins1 = inset_axes(ax1,
                        width="50%", # width = 10% of parent_bbox width
                        height="5%", # height : 50%
                        loc=1)
    
    im1=ax1.imshow([[1,2],[2, 3]])
    plt.colorbar(im1, cax=axins1, orientation="horizontal", ticks=[1,2,3])
    axins1.xaxis.set_ticks_position("bottom")
    
    # first subplot
    ax = fig.add_subplot(122)
    
    axins = inset_axes(ax,
                       width="5%", # width = 10% of parent_bbox width
                       height="50%", # height : 50%
                       loc=3,
                       bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 0., 1, 1),
                       bbox_transform=ax.transAxes,
                       borderpad=0,
                       )
    
    # Controlling the placement of the inset axes is basically same as that
    # of the legend.  you may want to play with the borderpad value and
    # the bbox_to_anchor coordinate.
    
    im=ax.imshow([[1,2],[2, 3]])
    plt.colorbar(im, cax=axins, ticks=[1,2,3])
    
    plt.draw()
    plt.show()
    

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