[FIXED] TypeError: boxplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'labels'

Issue

I'm using ipython 3.2.0, and I'm trying to use boxplot. Online documentation and examples suggest that a keyword "labels" should exist, as also stated in this SO post, but I get the following error:

TypeError: boxplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'labels'

Was the labels keyword removed? If so, what is the official way to get a legend for a boxplot?

Solution

The labels kwarg was added in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2643, first shipped with mpl v1.4.0 and is still present on master.

Answered By - tacaswell