title: Matplotlib: Adjusting the ticks to fit within the figure
body: <p>I have the following matplotlib code which all it does is plots 0-20 on the x-axis vs 0-100 on the y-axis</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  fig = plt.figure()
  ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
  ax.plot(range(20))
  ax.set_yticks(range(100))
  labels = ax.set_yticklabels(range(100))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem I have is that not all the labels actually fit within the y-axis.</p>
  
  <p>What I want to do is to divide the maximum label size into the total area of the figure to calculate how many labels I can put so that then I can group my data into sections 0-10, 10-20, 30-40 and plot those rather than display individual labels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...</p>
  
  <p>I am having trouble with finding the label size of the labels and the label size of the figure (correct me if I am wrong maybe it is the axis size in pixels. It is the first time I am using matplotlib)</p>
  
  <p>How can I find out the number of pixels the figure/axes is taking up (width + height) and also the number of pixels (width + height) of each label?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/930cw.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/930cw.png" alt="plot"></a></p>