pyplot is an interface which provides MATLAB-like syntax for matplotlib; There is a concept of a current Figure when using pyplot. If you don't specify any Figure, plt automatically creates a Figure ...

Figure Size, Aspect Ration, and DPI. Matplotlib allows the aspect ratio, DPI and figure size to be specified when the Figure object is created. You can use the figsize and dpi keyword arguments.

Bug summary setting figure size using the figsize parameter to matplotlib.pyplot.figure works just fine, but setting it to a different value in the same script fails in case the first argument to the ...