Receiving "TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'basey'" In this tutorial

Question

I've been trying to run through this tutorial (https://bedapub.github.io/besca/tutorials/scRNAseq_tutorial.html) for the past day and constantly get an error after running this portion:

bc.pl.kp_genes(adata, min_genes=min_genes, ax = ax1)

The error is the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/besca/pl/_filter_threshold_plots.py", line 57, in kp_genes
    ax.set_yscale("log", basey=10)
  File "/opt/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_base.py", line 4108, in set_yscale
    ax.yaxis._set_scale(value, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 761, in _set_scale
    self._scale = mscale.scale_factory(value, self, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib/scale.py", line 597, in scale_factory
    return scale_cls(axis, **kwargs)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'basey'

Anyone have any thoughts? I've uninstalled and installed matplotlib to make sure its updated but that doesn't seem to have done anything either.

Would appreciate any help! And thank you in advance I'm a beginner!

Answer 1

I looked for posts with a similar issue ("wrong" keyword calls on init) in Github and SO and it seems like you might need to update your matplotlib:

sudo pip install --upgrade matplotlib # for Linux
sudo pip install matplotlib --upgrade # for Windows