Described changes done in pull request matplotlib#2731

Author: matejak

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2014-27-02  Implemented separate horizontal/vertical axes padding to the
+           ImageGrid in the AxesGrid toolkit
+
 2014-01-02 `triplot` now returns the artist it adds and support of line and
            marker kwargs has been improved. GBY
 

doc/api/api_changes.rst

@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ original location:
   `fixed_dpi` parameter allows for overriding the `figure.dpi` setting
   instead of trying to deduce the intended behaviour from the file format.
 
+* Added support for horizontal/vertical axes padding to
+  `mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.ImageGrid` --- argument ``axes_pad`` can now be
+  tuple-like if separate axis padding is required.
+  The original behavior is preserved.
+
 
 .. _changes_in_1_3:
 

doc/users/whats_new.rst

@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ Added the `kwarg` 'which' to :func:`~matplotlib.Axes.get_xticklabels`,
 :func:`~matplotlib.Axis.set_ticks_position`.  If 'which' is `None` then the old
 behaviour (controlled by the bool `minor`).
 
+Separate horizontal/vertical axes padding support in ImageGrid
+``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
+The `kwarg` 'axes_pad' to :class:`mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.ImageGrid` can now
+be a tuple if separate horizontal/vertical padding is needed.
+This is supposed to be very helpful when you have a labelled legend next to
+every subplot and you need to make some space for legend's labels.
+
 Date handling
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