I would like to increase the horizontal spacing between two subplots, otherwise the ylabel of the second one (the right one) overlaps with the right plot itself (I prefer to do that rather than change the font sizes). Here is a sample code:

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib.ticker as mtick

x = np.arange(0,1,0.01)

y = x**2

z = x**3

fig = plt.figure('Sample')


plt.subplot(2,2,1)

   
plt.xlabel("$x$", fontsize=33)

plt.ylabel("My function", fontsize=33)  

plt.plot(x, y)

ax = plt.gca()

ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticks(),fontsize=26)

ax.set_yticklabels(ax.get_yticks(),fontsize=26)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mtick.FormatStrFormatter('%.1f'))

ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(mtick.FormatStrFormatter('%.1f')) 


plt.subplot(2,2,2)

   
plt.xlabel("$x$", fontsize=33)

plt.ylabel("My function 2", fontsize=33)  

plt.plot(x, z)

ax = plt.gca()

ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticks(),fontsize=26)

ax.set_yticklabels(ax.get_yticks(),fontsize=26)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mtick.FormatStrFormatter('%.1f'))

ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(mtick.FormatStrFormatter('%.1f')) 

Is there a simple way to achieve this?

I tried to use “fig.tight_layout()” but it had no effect