above.

        See Also
        --------
        .pyplot.subplots
        .Figure.add_subplot
        .pyplot.subplot

        Examples
        --------
        ::

            # First create some toy data:
            x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 400)
            y = np.sin(x**2)

            # Create a figure
            plt.figure()

            # Create a subplot
            ax = fig.subplots()
            ax.plot(x, y)
            ax.set_title('Simple plot')

            # Create two subplots and unpack the output array immediately
            ax1, ax2 = fig.subplots(1, 2, sharey=True)
            ax1.plot(x, y)
            ax1.set_title('Sharing Y axis')
            ax2.scatter(x, y)

            # Create four polar Axes and access them through the returned array
            axes = fig.subplots(2, 2, subplot_kw=dict(projection='polar'))
            axes[0, 0].plot(x, y)
            axes[1, 1].scatter(x, y)

            # Share an X-axis with each column of subplots
            fig.subplots(2, 2, sharex='col')

            # Share a Y-axis with each row of subplots
            fig.subplots(2, 2, sharey='row')

            # Share both X- and Y-axes with all subplots
            fig.subplots(2, 2, sharex='all', sharey='all')

            # Note that this is the same as
            fig.subplots(2, 2, sharex=True, sharey=True)
        Nr