Legend Compatibility Issue in texworld#557 (#2) [copy of nschloe#558]

* Legend Compatibility Issue in texworld#557 . . * Backwards Compat for `ncol` Co-authored-by: st-- <st--@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Paul Kim <44695374+thekpaul@users.noreply.github.com>
st-- · May 6, 2023 · 02e872d · 02e872d
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diff --git a/src/tikzplotlib/_legend.py b/src/tikzplotlib/_legend.py
@@ -78,8 +78,13 @@ def draw_legend(data, obj):
     if alignment:
         data["current axes"].axis_options.append(f"legend cell align={{{alignment}}}")
 
-    if obj._ncol != 1:
-        data["current axes"].axis_options.append(f"legend columns={obj._ncol}")
+    try:
+        ncols = obj._ncols
+    except AttributeError:
+        # backwards-compatibility with matplotlib < 3.6.0
+        ncols = obj._ncol
+    if ncols != 1:
+        data["current axes"].axis_options.append(f"legend columns={ncols}")
 
     # Write styles to data
     if legend_style: