pandas - boxplot median color settings issues

Question

I\'m running Pandas 0.16.2 and Matplotlib 1.4.3. I have this issue coloring the median of the boxplot generated by the following code:

df = pd.DataFrame(np.rando         


        

Answer 1

Actually the following workaround works well, returning a dict from the boxplot command:

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10, 5), columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E'])

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

bp = df.boxplot(return_type='dict')

and then assign directly colors and linewidth to the medians with:

[[item.set_color('r') for item in bp[key]['medians']] for key in bp.keys()]
[[item.set_linewidth(0.8) for item in bp[key]['medians']] for key in bp.keys()]