pandas DataFrame plot marker

Question

Is there a way to set the marker style in pandas.DataFrame.plot? All other options are available by setting the kind. I would like a marker with error bar but just get a line with an error bar. If I was to do this through the function errorbar I would set fmt='.'

Answer 1

df.plot passes extra keyword parameters along to the underlying matplotlib plotting function. Thus,

df = pd.DataFrame({'x':np.arange(10), 'y':np.random.randn(10), 
                   'err':np.random.randn(10)})
df.plot('x', 'y', yerr='err', fmt='.')

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