``boxplot``

Previously, boxplots were composed of a mish-mash styles that were, for

better for worse, inherited from Matlab. Most of the elements were blue,

but the medians were red. The fliers (outliers) were black plus-symbols

(`+`) and the whiskers were dashed lines, which created ambiguity if

the (solid and black) caps were not drawn.

For the new defaults, everything is black except for the median and mean

lines (if drawn), which are set to the first two elements of the current

color cycle. Also, the default flier markers are now hollow circles,

which maintain the ability of the plus-symbols to overlap without

obscuring data too much.

.. plot::

fig, (old, new) = pyplot.subplots(ncols=2, sharey=True)

with pyplot.style.context('default'):

new.boxplot(data, labels=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])

new.set_title('New boxplots')

with pyplot.style.context('classic'):

old.boxplot(data, labels=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])

old.set_title('Old boxplots')

new.set_ylim(bottom=0)

The previous defaults can be restored by setting::

or by setting::

in your :file:`matplotlibrc` file.