As discussed on twitter with@mwaskom and@anntzer - it would be niece to be able to take xor y out of the layout independently (i.e. inArtist.set_in_layout(x=False, y=True) For many artists this is probably not too hard, but will take a little finesse. Probably not too hard to do in a backwards compatible way.

Also,ax.get_tightbbox should letax.xaxis andax.yaxis be taken out of the layout.

https://gitter.im/matplotlib/matplotlib?at=60ee30a623fd26511dae2d24