How to add black border to matplotlib 2.0 `ax` object In Python 3?

Question

I've been using style sheets in matplotlib lately. I really like how clean the seaborn-white looks and I want to be able to add the border to other styles like ggplot or seaborn-whitegrid.

How can I add a black border around my ax object from fig, ax = plt.subplots()?

import pandas as pd
import numpy  as np
from collections import *

Se_data = pd.Series(Counter(np.random.randint(0,10,100)))
with plt.style.context("seaborn-whitegrid"):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    Se_data.plot(kind="barh", ax=ax, title="No Border")
with plt.style.context("seaborn-white"):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    Se_data.plot(kind="barh", ax=ax, title="With Border")

In response to the answer below:

Se_data = pd.Series(Counter(np.random.randint(0,10,100)))
with plt.style.context("seaborn-whitegrid"):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    Se_data.plot(kind="barh", ax=ax, title="No Border")
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_color('0.5')
    ax.spines['top'].set_color(None)
    ax.spines['right'].set_color('0.5')
    ax.spines['left'].set_color(None)
    ax.patch.set_facecolor('0.1')
    plt.grid(b=True, which='major', color='0.2', linestyle='-')
    plt.grid(b=True, which='minor', color='0.2', linestyle='-')
    ax.tick_params(axis='x', colors='0.7', which='both')
    ax.tick_params(axis='y', colors='0.7', which='both')
    ax.yaxis.label.set_color('0.9')
    ax.xaxis.label.set_color('0.9')
    ax.margins(5)
    fig.patch.set_facecolor('0.15')

Answer 1

Take a look at this. What you're looking for are these two lines:

ax.patch.set_edgecolor('black')  

ax.patch.set_linewidth('1')