module 'matplotlib.pyplot' has no attribute 'xaxis'

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So I'm very new to Python and I'm having the following issue: I want to display a boxplot but everytime I'm trying to name the axis or yaxis I'm getting the following error: AttributeError: module 'matplotlib.pyplot' has no attribute 'xaxis' I would appreciate some help as I have no idea whats causing this. Other than the error, the boxplot does show correctly.

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
myFile = pd.read_csv("myFile.csv", sep=";")
data_to_plot = [myFile.Class_1,myFile.Class_2]
plt.boxplot(data_to_plot)
plt.xaxis("X - Axis")
plt.yaxis("Y - Axis")
plt.show()

pandas already include matplotlib funcionalities. In my answer you got a pandas only solution. — rpanai
– rpanai, Commented Apr 21, 2020 at 3:08

SteCrz · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-21 01:27:33Z

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What you're probably looking for is

plt.xlabel('X - axis')
plt.ylabel('Y - axis')

The error is telling you that the attribute doesn't exist and so you can't access plt.xaxis

answered Apr 21, 2020 at 1:27

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Eli S. Over a year ago

I tried that, it gives me "TypeError: 'str' object is not callable" and pointing to the newly inserted lines.

rpanai · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-21 01:30:17Z

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Here a reproducible example

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 4),
                  columns=['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col3', 'Col4'])
boxplot = df.boxplot(column=['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col3'])
boxplot.set_xlabel("X - axis")
boxplot.set_ylabel("Y - axis");

answered Apr 21, 2020 at 1:30

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