title: matplotlib boxplot color
body: <p>I'm trying to create a box &amp; whisker plot of a set of data binning y versus x. I found an useful example in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2716894/making-binned-boxplot-in-matplotlib-with-numpy-and-scipy-in-python">making binned boxplot in matplotlib with numpy and scipy in Python</a>. The question is now very simple. How can I specify the color of the boxes in matplotlib.pyplot.boxplot as I would like to set it transparent in order to let the reader also to see the original data. I know there exists the example shown in <a href="http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/boxplot_demo2.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/boxplot_demo2.html</a> but is anything simpler than this? It looks strange the impossibility to set the color of the boxes directly in boxplot
  Thank you in advance</p>