Extra white space in bar diagram matplotlib

Question

I am creating the following plot and it seems like it's leaving some extra white space on the right hand side and I'm not exactly sure why.

The code to generate the above is given below:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

d1 = (0,1,3,6,4,2,2,59,4,3,4,4,33,3,2,5,61)
d2 = (6,7,9,4,4,4,3,19,4,1,11,28,13,8,15,28,28)
d3 = (6,7,9,4,4,4,3,19,4,1,14,28,13,8,15,28,32)

N = len(d1)
ind = np.arange(N)
width = 0.2

font = {'family' : 'sans-serif', 'weight' : 'normal', 'size' : 10}
matplotlib.rc('font', **font)

fig,ax = plt.subplots()
rects1 = ax.bar(ind, MA_DPU, width, color='r', alpha=0.7)
rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, res1, width, color='b', alpha=0.7)
rects3 = ax.bar(ind+2*width, res2, width, color='g', alpha=0.7)

ax.set_xticks(ind+width*1.5)

plt.show()

Answer 1

Try to set the xlim of your Axes:

ax.set_xlim(0, 16.4)
plt.show()

For convenience you can use "plt.autoscale()":

plt.autoscale()

avoiding to set the xlim manually.

The optional parameters with their default values are:

plt.autoscale(enable=True, axis='both', tight=None)