BUG : relax validation on hist label

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit a22e82e4f72f · 2014-12-27T20:43:43.000-05:00
Closes #3869
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -5853,11 +5853,8 @@ def hist(self, x, bins=10, range=None, normed=False, weights=None,
             labels = [None]
         elif is_string_like(label):
             labels = [label]
-        elif is_sequence_of_strings(label):
-            labels = list(label)
         else:
-            raise ValueError(
-                'invalid label: must be string or sequence of strings')
+            labels = [str(lab) for lab in label]
 
         if len(labels) < nx:
             labels += [None] * (nx - len(labels))
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_axes.py
@@ -3409,6 +3409,11 @@ def test_color_None():
     ax.plot([1,2], [1,2], color=None)
     plt.show()
 
+@cleanup
+def test_numerical_hist_label():
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+    ax.hist([range(15)] * 5, label=range(5))
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import nose
     import sys
