Bug report

Try googling "AxesSubplot" which is the type you get back from a plt.gca() call. Try finding this class in the docs. Try searching for this class in the source code.

Poor new users trying to figure out what they're dealing with...

(It's a dynamic class created in _subplot.py that is a subclass of Axes, but ... boy was that a pain to detangle. Asked it's class for it's module, etc... Have mercy on new users and make it easier to find documentation for dynamic classes.)

(and no, it's not good enough that google does show Axes in its result, because it's not AxesSubplot, and if you're chasing down an AttributeError, or have a typo in a function call that you believe it "should" respond to, you're in a mindset of thinking "this must not be an Axes")