Obtaining values used in boxplot, using python and matplotlib

Question

I can draw a boxplot from data:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

data = np.random.rand(100)
plt.boxplot(data)

Then, the

Answer 1

Why do you want to do so? what you are doing is already pretty direct.

Yeah, if you want to fetch them for the plot, when the plot is already made, simply use the get_ydata() method.

B = plt.boxplot(data)
[item.get_ydata() for item in B['whiskers']]

It returns an array of the shape (2,) for each whiskers, the second element is the value we want:

[item.get_ydata()[1] for item in B['whiskers']]