Change pandas plot background color

Question

Is it possible to change the background in a pandas chart?

I would like to change the background from white and the line to orange but I cannot find any documentation to do that.

I am using the pandas as follows:

import pandas.io.data as web
import numpy as np

gs = web.get_data_yahoo('gs')['Close']
gs = gs.pct_change()
gs.plot()

Is it possible to change the background to black or any other color?

CT Zhu · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-17 02:29:35Z

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plot() in pandas are build on matplotlib. The right way is just to access the plot axes object and change its bgcolor: change the lastlines to:

P=gs.plot()
P.set_axis_bgcolor('g') #or any HTML colorcode, (R,G,B) tuple, (R,G,B,A) tuple, etcetc.

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answered Apr 17, 2014 at 2:22

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Seems to be deprecated. Use P.set_facecolor('g') instead.