Pandas bar plot with specific colors and legend location?

Question

I have a pandas DataFrame and I want to plot a bar chart that includes a legend.

import pylab as pl
from pandas import *

x = DataFrame({\"Alpha         


        

Answer 1

The most succinct way to go is:

x.plot(kind="bar").legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.2, 0.5))

or in general

x.plot(kind="bar").legend(*args, **kwargs)