DOC: Original documentation was misleading

madphysicist · web-flow · commit c8d7d6bb52a7 · 2016-12-21T13:41:18.000-05:00
Doing `figure.add_axes([0, 1, 0, 1])` would create axes that are in the upper left corner with width zero.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ def figimage(self, X,
         (:meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.imshow`) which will be resampled
         to fit the current axes.  If you want a resampled image to
         fill the entire figure, you can define an
-        :class:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes` with size [0,1,0,1].
+        :class:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes` with extent [0,0,1,1].
 
         An :class:`matplotlib.image.FigureImage` instance is returned.
 
