How to save picture boxplot seaborn

Question

I create a boxplot as bellow

import seaborn as sns
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
ax = sns.boxplot(x=tips["total_bill"])

& try to save

sns.boxplot.savefig('ax.png')

or

ax.savefig('ax.png')

but

AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'savefig'

It's surprisely, beacause it's correct for lmplot etc....

Answer 1

One option is to first generate the matplotlib figure and axes

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

Then do all the plotting you need with seaborn, specifying the axes to use, e.g.

sns.boxplot('A', 'B', data=your_dataframe, ax=ax) 

And finally save in the usual way

plt.savefig('your_figure.png')

Answer 2

lmplot does not return an AxesSubplot instance, boxplot does. You can get the figure ax belongs to and then savefig it:

ax.get_figure().savefig('ax.png')