From c9c7d1ea98ea21b492325662110c670f7d60f926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Ivanov <pivanov314@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:48:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: 'inout' option for tick_params direction

Thanks to Mike Kaufman for reporting it to mpl-devel list
---
 lib/matplotlib/axes.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
index 9d3061f40985..73ace3338a92 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
@@ -2334,8 +2334,8 @@ def tick_params(self, axis='both', **kwargs):
         *which* : ['major' | 'minor' | 'both']
             Default is 'major'; apply arguments to *which* ticks.
 
-        *direction* : ['in' | 'out']
-            Puts ticks inside or outside the axes.
+        *direction* : ['in' | 'out' | 'inout']
+            Puts ticks inside the axes, outside the axes, or both.
 
         *length*
             Tick length in points.