Re: [Matplotlib-users] box plot on noisy data

[Christoph T. W. <ct...@co...>]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:02:30 -0600,  Steve Sullivan <st...@uc...> wrote:
> But boxplot seems to demand that each box represent the same
> number of values.  For example, if day 1 had 5 observations
> and day 2 had only 4 obs, we'd have the program:
>
> import pylab as pb
> vals = [ [1,2,3,4,5], [10,20,30,40]]
> pb.boxplot( vals)
> pb.show()
>
> This gives:
> Traceback (most recent call last): ...
> ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.

This example works fine for me using matplotlib version 0.98.3 and
I've also made many boxplots with unequal numbers of elements with
earlier matplotlib versions.