plt.hist does not obey the hist.bins rcparams #7356
Description
2.0b4 and master
import matplotlib as mpl
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
mpl.rcdefaults()
mpl.rcParams["hist.bins"] = "auto"
np.random.seed(1)
x = np.random.rand(1000)
n0, b0, p0 = plt.hist(x)
n1, b1, p1 = plt.hist(x, "auto")
print(n0)
print(n1)
plt.show()
The first histogram has 10 bins, the second one has 11 bins.
Note that this does not affect calling the hist method on an explicitly created Axes object.