xunits=None and yunits=None passed as kwargs are treated as "no action"ΒΆ
Many (but not all) of the methods on Axes
take the (undocumented)
kwargs xunits and yunits that will update the units on the given
Axis by calling Axis.set_units
and Axis.update_units
.
Previously if None
was passed it would clear the value stored in
.Axis.units
which will in turn break converters (notably
StrCategoryConverter
) which rely on the value in
.Axis.units
to work properly.
This changes the semantics of ax.meth(..., xunits=None,
yunits=None)
from "please clear the units" to "do the default thing
as if they had not been passed" which is consistent with the standard
behavior of Matplotlib keyword arguments.
If you were relying on passing xuints=None
to plotting methods to
clear the .Axes.units
attribute, directly call Axis.set_units
(and
Axis.update_units
if you also require the converter to be updated).