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DOC: Correct subplot() doc #7760

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fixes #7393, change subplot doc
petehuang Jan 7, 2017
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change to fully overlaps
petehuang Jan 8, 2017
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Adjust wording to @efiring's recommendatoin
petehuang Jan 10, 2017
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
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Expand Up @@ -976,8 +976,8 @@ def subplot(*args, **kwargs):

.. note::

Creating a new subplot with a position which is entirely inside a
pre-existing axes will trigger the larger axes to be deleted::
Creating a subplot will delete any pre-existing subplot that overlaps
with it beyond sharing a boundary::

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# plot a line, implicitly creating a subplot(111)
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