From 239a28b37d6d15b8cd99f1b7854f75c55edfefa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:59:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] MNT: put back `_hold` as read-only attribute on AxesBase

This is to un-break the current version of cartopy.
---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py
index 712c9f097371..25743b99b17c 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py
@@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ class _AxesBase(martist.Artist):
     _shared_y_axes = cbook.Grouper()
     _twinned_axes = cbook.Grouper()
 
+    @property
+    def _hold(self):
+        return True
+
     def __str__(self):
         return "{0}({1[0]:g},{1[1]:g};{1[2]:g}x{1[3]:g})".format(
             type(self).__name__, self._position.bounds)