Bug summary

when setting axes position withax = plt.axes(position = [...]) the position data is not being incorporated.

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltfig=plt.figure()pos1= [0.1,0.1,0.3,0.8]pos2= [0.5,0.1,0.4,0.6]ax1=plt.axes(position=pos1)ax1.plot([0,1], [0,1],color='r',linewidth=3)ax2=plt.axes(position=pos2)ax2.plot([1,0], [0,1],color='b',linestyle='--')

Actual outcome

The two axes completely overlap

Expected outcome

Would expect two separate axes (these were created by adding
ax1.set_axes(pos1) andax2.set_axes(pos2), which should not be necessary)

Operating system

Windows

Matplotlib Version

3.4.2

Matplotlib Backend

Qt5Agg

Python version

3.8.8

Jupyter version

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Other libraries

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Installation

conda

Conda channel

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