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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Feature Idea: Make subplots return an AxisList object instead of a numpy array","articleBody":"Hey,\r\n\r\nThis is a short idea I had when creating complex graphs with multiple subplots.\r\nSometimes you want to apply the same actions to multiple subplots and a way that feels very natural would be something like this:\r\n\r\n````python\r\nfig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2)\r\naxs[:, 0].set_ylabel('test')\r\n````\r\n\r\nThis does of course not work, but could be easily be achieved by returning a custom object that wraps a list of axes instances and overwrites the `__getitem__` method.\r\nOf course it would need to reimplement all axes methods, but it might be possible to do that by just forwarding all call in a modified  `__getattribute__` or by automatically creating wrapped classmethods in a metaclass.\r\n\r\nWith such a custom object it might even be possible to support something like this:\r\n````python\r\naxs[:, 0].set_ylabel(['test1', 'test2'])\r\n````\r\n\r\nIf there is interest in such functionality, I would try to build a working prototype.\r\n\r\nOther than that, thanks to everybody for all the awesome work you put into matplotlib!\r\nRegards,\r\nArne\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/AKuederle","@type":"Person","name":"AKuederle"},"datePublished":"2017-10-16T10:51:43.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":16},"url":"https://github.com/9434/matplotlib/issues/9434"}