plt.figure(figsize=(10,20)) is not working

Question

I am using matplotlib.pyplot to plot a histogram and i want to increase the size of the plot. The code to plot is:

plt.hist(x)
plt.xlabel("Months")
plt.ylabel("Donated")
plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.show()

But plt.figure(..) is not having any affect on the size of the the graph. I am using Spyder IDE.

Answer 1

You want to define your figure space prior to creating the plot information.

plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.hist(x)
plt.xlabel("Months")
plt.ylabel("Donated")
plt.show()

This will define your figure then plot information in that space, otherwise Matplotlib will use defaults.

Answer 2

Just put it at the top:

plt.figure(figsize=(10,20))
plt.hist(x)
plt.xlabel("Months")
plt.ylabel("Donated")
plt.show()