Axis Titles cannot be set via Python

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I use Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook together with Plot.ly. When I try to run the example below:

import plotly.offline as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go

py.offline.init_notebook_mode()

# Add data
month = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
         'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
high_2000 = [32.5, 37.6, 49.9, 53.0, 69.1, 75.4, 76.5, 76.6, 70.7, 60.6, 45.1, 29.3]
low_2000 = [13.8, 22.3, 32.5, 37.2, 49.9, 56.1, 57.7, 58.3, 51.2, 42.8, 31.6, 15.9]
high_2007 = [36.5, 26.6, 43.6, 52.3, 71.5, 81.4, 80.5, 82.2, 76.0, 67.3, 46.1, 35.0]
low_2007 = [23.6, 14.0, 27.0, 36.8, 47.6, 57.7, 58.9, 61.2, 53.3, 48.5, 31.0, 23.6]
high_2014 = [28.8, 28.5, 37.0, 56.8, 69.7, 79.7, 78.5, 77.8, 74.1, 62.6, 45.3, 39.9]
low_2014 = [12.7, 14.3, 18.6, 35.5, 49.9, 58.0, 60.0, 58.6, 51.7, 45.2, 32.2, 29.1]

# Create and style traces
trace0 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = high_2014,
    name = 'High 2014',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(205, 12, 24)'),
        width = 4)
)
trace1 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = low_2014,
    name = 'Low 2014',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(22, 96, 167)'),
        width = 4,)
)
trace2 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = high_2007,
    name = 'High 2007',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(205, 12, 24)'),
        width = 4,
        dash = 'dash') # dash options include 'dash', 'dot', and 'dashdot'
)
trace3 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = low_2007,
    name = 'Low 2007',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(22, 96, 167)'),
        width = 4,
        dash = 'dash')
)
trace4 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = high_2000,
    name = 'High 2000',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(205, 12, 24)'),
        width = 4,
        dash = 'dot')
)
trace5 = go.Scatter(
    x = month,
    y = low_2000,
    name = 'Low 2000',
    line = dict(
        color = ('rgb(22, 96, 167)'),
        width = 4,
        dash = 'dot')
)
data = [trace0, trace1, trace2, trace3, trace4, trace5]

# Edit the layout
layout = dict(title = 'Average High and Low Temperatures in New York',
              xaxis = dict(title = 'Month'),
              yaxis = dict(title = 'Temperature (degrees F)'),
              )

fig = dict(data=data, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig, filename='styled-line')

then I see an empty diagram with no data in it. Legend, Title and Axis titles are okay. If I ommit now the x-axis and y-axis title, so that my layout looks as following:

layout = dict(title = ‘Average High and Low Temperatures in New York’)

then the plots are correct, but both axis don´t have titles as desired.

Does anybody has an idea how to solve this?

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Hey @Jeoppman,

Your code does not display the plot in Jupyter notebook if I run it with Plotly 2.0.12, but upgrading to the last version, 2.0.14, with:

pip install plotly --upgrade

it works fine.

newplot
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Hello Empet,
thanks a lot for your fast reply. You are right, if I update to Plotly 2.0.14 the plot command and the iplot command runs fine. Tested with the following browsers:

(1) Chrome Version 59.0.3071.86 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)
(2) Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.483.15063.0
(3) Mozilla Firefox 55.0.2 (32-Bit)

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