Problem

I'm always frustrated when: I need to call functions on, say, axes, and my initial attempts fail because a lot of the function names begin with set_, while their pyplot counterparts do not.

ax.set_xlabel('my label') vs. plt.xlabel('my label')
ax.set_title('The Title') vs. plt.title('The Title')

Proposed solution

Perhaps create aliases for the axes functions to match the pyplot functions.