from pylab import * subplot(2,2,1) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.5,0.5, 'subplot(2,2,1)',ha='center',va='center',size=20,alpha=.5) subplot(2,2,2) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.5,0.5, 'subplot(2,2,2)',ha='center',va='center',size=20,alpha=.5) subplot(2,2,3) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.5,0.5, 'subplot(2,2,3)',ha='center',va='center',size=20,alpha=.5) subplot(2,2,4) xticks([]), yticks([]) text(0.5,0.5, 'subplot(2,2,4)',ha='center',va='center',size=20,alpha=.5) # savefig('../figures/subplot-grid.png', dpi=64) show()