addressing PR feedback

Author: ivanov

doc/users/whats_new.rst

@@ -141,10 +141,10 @@ extensions rectangular instead of triangular.
 Examples now use subplots()
 ---------------------------
 For the sake of brevity and clarity, most of the :ref:`examples
-<examples-index>` now use the newer :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`
-, which creates a figure and one (or multiple) axes object(s) in one
-call. The old way involved a call to :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.figure`,
-followed by one (or multiple) :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplot` calls.
+<examples-index>` now use the newer :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`, which
+creates a figure and one (or multiple) axes object(s) in one call. The old way
+involved a call to :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.figure`, followed by one (or
+multiple) :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplot` calls.
 
 Calling subplot() without arguments
 -----------------------------------

examples/animation/old_animation/animation_blit_wx.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 
 fig, ax = plt.subplots()
-canvas = ax.figure.canvas
+canvas = fig.canvas
 
 
 p.subplots_adjust(left=0.3, bottom=0.3) # check for flipy bugs

examples/axes_grid/inset_locator_demo.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def add_sizebar(ax, size):
    ax.add_artist(asb)
 
 
-fig, (ax,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize=[5.5, 3])
+fig, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=[5.5, 3])
 
 # first subplot
 ax.set_aspect(1.)