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The best way to fix the axessubplot’ object is not subscriptable error

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I am working with python and getting the error message:

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 TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
 <ipython-input-108-ce962754d553> in <module>()
 ----> 2 axs[0, 0].boxplot([df1['x'], df2['x']])
  3 plt.show();
  4 
 
 TypeError: 'AxesSubplot' object is not subscriptable

Here is the detail of the code that I ran

fig, axs = plt.subplots()
 axs[0, 0].boxplot([df1['x'], df2['x']])
 plt.show();

I need an explanation for the problems I’ve encountered. How to fix axessubplot’ object is not subscriptable?

axessubplot object is not subscriptable
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    The cause: 

    fig, axs = plt.subplots()

    Above command returns a figure that has only one subplot, but axs holds it with no indexing.

    fig, axs = plt.subplots(3)

    A 1D array with subplots is returned.

    fig, axs = plt.subplots(3, 2)

    Returns a 2D array with subplots.

    This is because the default setting for the kwarg, so the error happens.

    Solution:

    You can suppress this problem by setting  False in the .subplots() command to force it return the result to be a 2-dimensional array, regardless of how many or arrange the subplots.

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