matplotlib measure the width of text
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # some example plot plt.plot([1,2,3], [2,3,4]) t = plt.text(1.1, 3.1, "my text", fontsize=18) # to get the text bounding box # we need to draw the plot plt.gcf().canvas.draw() # get bounding box of the text # in the units of the data bbox = t.get_window_extent() .inverse_transformed(plt.gca().transData) print(bbox) # prints: Bbox(x0=1.1, y0=3.0702380952380954, x1=1.5296875, y1=3.2130952380952382) # plot the bounding box around the text plt.plot([bbox.x0, bbox.x0, bbox.x1, bbox.x1, bbox.x0], [bbox.y0, bbox.y1, bbox.y1, bbox.y0, bbox.y0]) plt.show()
