Bar and box plots use the 'default' matplotlib colormap, even if the style is changed

[halflings]

I originally thought this was an issue with pandas ( pandas-dev/pandas#12029 ), but I can reproduce it by using matplotlib alone.

After changing the style to "fivethirtyeight" (with pyplot.style.use("fivethirtyeight") ) and changing the default colormap (via rcParams), both bar plots and boxplots still use the default colors:

plt.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7, 8])
plt.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [6, 3, 7, 12], alpha=0.5)

plt.bar([0, 1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7, 8])
plt.bar([0, 1, 2, 3], [6, 3, 7, 12], alpha=0.5)

plt.boxplot([6, 3, 7, 12, 20, 25, 33])

The code I used to customize the plotting style can be found on the pandas issue (like I said, it's mostly just setting the style to fivethirtyeight then changing the color cycle)

[mdboom]

I think this is fixed by #5598 #5593.

[halflings]

Great!

Seems like the pandas people did a work around to fix this ( pandas-dev/pandas#11865 ), I hope both fixes won't conflict with each other :)

[jenshnielsen]

@mdboom I remember that we talked about this issue sometime back but Is that the right PR? It only related to mplot3d as far as I can see

[mdboom]

Sorry -- I mistyped the PR number. It's #5593.

[halflings]

Since it seems like this was addressed previously, closing the issue. Thanks!