MNT: add kwarg normalization to ax.bar

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 5e556808f1ba · 2016-05-22T14:44:34.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ def bar(self, left, height, width=0.8, bottom=None, **kwargs):
 
         .. plot:: mpl_examples/pylab_examples/bar_stacked.py
         """
+        kwargs = cbook.normalize_kwargs(kwargs, mpatches._patch_alias_map)
         if not self._hold:
             self.cla()
         color = kwargs.pop('color', None)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/patches.py b/lib/matplotlib/patches.py
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@
 
           """)
 
+_patch_alias_map = {
+        'antialiased': ['aa'],
+        'edgecolor': ['ec'],
+        'facecolor': ['fc'],
+        'linewidth': ['lw'],
+        'linestyle': ['ls']
+    }
+
 
 class Patch(artist.Artist):
     """
