Manual axes positioning

set_position places an axes at an explicit (left, bottom, width, height) and opts it out of auto-layout – a later tight_layout/ subplots_adjust call leaves it exactly where it was put, while every other grid axes still auto-fits normally.

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import numpy as np
import plotpress

x = np.linspace(0, 10, 200)

fig, (a1, a2) = plotpress.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(8, 4))
a1.plot(x, np.sin(x))
a1.set_title("auto-fitted")
a2.plot(x, np.cos(x))
a2.set_title("manually positioned")

a2.set_position((0.72, 0.15, 0.22, 0.3))   # shrink it into a corner
fig.tight_layout()   # a1 still auto-fits; a2 stays exactly where it was put
fig.suptitle("set_position() opts a2 out of auto-layout")