Bug summary

We had code that did imports ofAxes andFigure as follows:

This used to work fine with type checkers like pyright and mypy prior to matplotlib 3.8. Now the type checkers complain.

Code for reproduction

frommatplotlibimportpyplotaspltplt.Axesplt.Figure

Actual outcome

pyright reports thatAxes andFigure are not exported from the modulepyplot

Expected outcome

No typing error.

Additional information

Fix would be to do something like this inpyplot.py

frommatplotlib.axesimportAxesasAxesfrommatploblib.figureimportFigureasFigure

This came up due to our CI forpandas-stubs that was testing typing of pandas against matplotlib imports

Operating system

Windows 10

Matplotlib Version

3.8

Matplotlib Backend

N/A

Python version

3.10

Jupyter version

N/A

Installation

pip