From f52c17ea71fe1a26fa446e304e011c28160004cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 00:09:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #17383: yticks: Fix typos

---
 lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py b/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
index 1d28260ef328..ce66e672a100 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ def yticks(ticks=None, labels=None, **kwargs):
     Parameters
     ----------
     ticks : array-like, optional
-        The list of xtick locations.  Passing an empty list removes all xticks.
+        The list of ytick locations.  Passing an empty list removes all yticks.
     labels : array-like, optional
         The labels to place at the given *ticks* locations.  This argument can
         only be passed if *ticks* is passed as well.