How to change the scale of an existing table in Matplotlib?

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To change scale of a table, we can use the scale() method. Steps −

Create a figure and a set of subplots, nrows=1 and ncols=1.
Create a random data using numpy.
Make columns value.
Make the axis tight and off.
Initialize a variable fontsize to change the fontsize.
To set the fontsize of the table and to scale the table, we can use 1.5 and 1.5.
To display the figure, use the show() method.

Example

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.50, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 1)
data = np.random.random((10, 3))
columns = ("Column I", "Column II", "Column III")
axs.axis('tight')
axs.axis('off')
fontsize = 10
the_table = axs.table(cellText=data, colLabels=columns, loc='center')
the_table.set_fontsize(fontsize)
the_table.scale(1.5, 1.5)
plt.show()