Python: How to plot multiple seaborn heatmaps side-by-side?

Question

I have a Pandas dataframe with 20+ features. I would like to see their correlation matrices. I create the heatmaps with code like the below, with subset1 , subset2 , etc.:

import seaborn as sns
cmap = sns.diverging_palette( 220 , 10 , as_cmap = True )
sb1 = sns.heatmap(
    subset1.corr(), 
    cmap = cmap,
    square=True, 
    cbar_kws={ 'shrink' : .9 }, 
    annot = True, 
    annot_kws = { 'fontsize' : 12 })

I would like to be able to display multiple heatmaps generated by the above code, side-by-side like so:

display_side_by_side(sb1, sb2, sb3, . . .)

I'm not sure how to do this because the first code chunk above not only saves the results to sb1 , but also plots the heatmap. Also, not sure how to write a function, display_side_by_side() . I am using the following for Pandas dataframes:

# create a helper function that takes pd.dataframes as input and outputs pretty, compact EDA results
from IPython.display import display_html
def display_side_by_side(*args):
    html_str = ''
    for df in args:
        html_str = html_str + df.to_html()
    display_html(html_str.replace('table','table style="display:inline"'),raw=True)

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Based on the first answer below by Simas Joneliunas, I have come up with the following working solution:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

# Here we create a figure instance, and two subplots
fig = plt.figure(figsize = (20,20)) # width x height
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(3, 3, 1) # row, column, position
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(3, 3, 2)
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(3, 3, 3)
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(3, 3, 4)
ax5 = fig.add_subplot(3, 3, 5)

# We use ax parameter to tell seaborn which subplot to use for this plot
sns.heatmap(data=subset1.corr(), ax=ax1, cmap = cmap, square=True, cbar_kws={'shrink': .3}, annot=True, annot_kws={'fontsize': 12})
sns.heatmap(data=subset2.corr(), ax=ax2, cmap = cmap, square=True, cbar_kws={'shrink': .3}, annot=True, annot_kws={'fontsize': 12})
sns.heatmap(data=subset3.corr(), ax=ax3, cmap = cmap, square=True, cbar_kws={'shrink': .3}, annot=True, annot_kws={'fontsize': 12})
sns.heatmap(data=subset4.corr(), ax=ax4, cmap = cmap, square=True, cbar_kws={'shrink': .3}, annot=True, annot_kws={'fontsize': 12})
sns.heatmap(data=subset5.corr(), ax=ax5, cmap = cmap, square=True, cbar_kws={'shrink': .3}, annot=True, annot_kws={'fontsize': 12})

Answer 1

You should look at matplotlib.add_subplot:

# Here we create a figure instance, and two subplots
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(211)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(212)

# We use ax parameter to tell seaborn which subplot to use for this plot
sns.pointplot(x="x", y="y", data=data, ax=ax1)