from pylab import * axes([0.1,0.1,.5,.5]) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.1,0.1, 'axes([0.1,0.1,.5,.5])',ha='left',va='center',size=16,alpha=.5) axes([0.2,0.2,.5,.5]) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.1,0.1, 'axes([0.2,0.2,.5,.5])',ha='left',va='center',size=16,alpha=.5) axes([0.3,0.3,.5,.5]) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.1,0.1, 'axes([0.3,0.3,.5,.5])',ha='left',va='center',size=16,alpha=.5) axes([0.4,0.4,.5,.5]) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.1,0.1, 'axes([0.4,0.4,.5,.5])',ha='left',va='center',size=16,alpha=.5) # plt.savefig("../figures/axes-2.png",dpi=64) show()