_pad, then the pads are used instead. rect : tuple of 4 floats Rectangle in figure coordinates to perform constrained layout in [left, bottom, width, height], each from 0-1. compress : bool Whether to shift Axes so that white space in between them is removed. This is useful for simple grids of fixed-aspect Axes (e.g. a grid of images). Returns ------- layoutgrid : private debugging structure N)