[FIXED] error which says TypeError: boxplot() got multiple values for keyword argument 'vert', what do i do?

Issue

data1 = randn(100)
data2 = randn(100)
sns.boxplot(data1,vert=False)

the above lines of code give me error below TypeError: boxplot() got multiple values for keyword argument 'vert'

(All the required libraries are imported)

My version is 3.6 of Python and I am using Anaconda's Jupyter Notebook to execute the code

Solution

When using a seaborn boxplot, the keyword argument you need is orient. This has options "h" for horizontal, or "v" for vertical .

So for your case the solution would simply be sns.boxplot(data1, orient="h").

Seaborn boxplot calls ax.boxplot under the hood. Seaborn doesn't accept vert as an argument because vert is calculated by seaborn from the orient argument in categorical.py line 457-459, which is then passed to ax.boxplot:

def draw_boxplot(self, ax, kws):
    """Use matplotlib to draw a boxplot on an Axes."""
    vert = self.orient == "v"

If you were to include vert=False in sns.boxlpot(data1, vert=False) that would essentially be the same as ax.boxplot(data1, vert=False, vert=False) which you can't do.

Answered By - DavidG