How to use `GridSpec()` with `subplots()`

Rather than calling gridspec.GridSpec before subplots, you can send the kwargs to GridSpec from within your subplots call, using the gridspec_kw argument. From the docs:

gridspec_kw : dict

Dict with keywords passed to the GridSpec constructor used to create the grid the subplots are placed on.

So, for example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

tPlot, axes = plt.subplots(
        nrows=4, ncols=1, sharex=True, sharey=False, 
        gridspec_kw={'height_ratios':[2,2,1,1]}
        )

tPlot.suptitle('node', fontsize=20)

axes[0].plot(range(10),'ro-') 
axes[1].plot(range(10),'bo-') 
axes[2].plot(range(10),'go-') 
axes[3].plot(range(10),'mo-') 

plt.show()