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+Thank you so much for your PR! To help us review, fill out the form to the best of your ability. Also, please make use of the development guide at http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/index.html
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+<!--- Provide a general summary of your changes in the Title above, for example "Raises ValueError on Non-Numeric Input to set_xlim". Please avoid non-descriptive titles such as "Addresses issue #8576"-->
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+## PR Summary
+<!--- Please provide at least 1-2 sentences describing the pull request in detail. Why is this change required? What problem does it solve? -->
+<!--- If it fixes an open issue, please link to the issue here. -->
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+## PR Checklist
+- [ ] Has Pytest style unit tests
+- [ ] Code is PEP 8 compliant 
+- [ ] New features are documented, with examples if plot related
+- [ ] Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant
+- [ ] Added an entry to doc/users/whats_new.rst if major new feature
+- [ ] Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way
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