Adds support for passing kwargs to Plot.save to allow specifying options directly to pylab, such as bbox_inches='tight' to remove the whitespace border around the plot.

Author: Alan LaMielle

Plot.py

@@ -327,12 +327,12 @@ def setPlotParameters(self, **kwdict):
             self.plotParams["hspace"] = 0.20
 
 
-    def save(self, filename):
+    def save(self, filename, **kwargs):
         """
         Save this plot to a file.
         """
         layout = self.__setupLayout()
-        layout.save(filename)
+        layout.save(filename,**kwargs)
 
     def plotInset(self, parentAxes, width, height, location, padding):
         if not insetLocatorLoaded:

PlotLayout.py

@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ def plot(self):
         else:
             pylab.draw()
 
-    def save(self, filename):
+    def save(self, filename, **kwargs):
         print "Saving %s ..." % filename
 
         tempDisplayHack = False
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def save(self, filename):
             tempDisplayHack = True
             os.environ["DISPLAY"] = ":0.0"
         self._doPlot()
-        pylab.savefig(filename)
+        pylab.savefig(filename,**kwargs)
         pylab.clf()
 
         if tempDisplayHack == True: