seaborn: Selected KDE bandwidth is 0. Cannot estimate density

Question

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns

ser_test = pd.Series([1,0,1,4,6,0,6,5,1,3,2,5,1])
sns.kdeplot(ser_test, cumulative=True)

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Answer 1

if you don't want to wait for the seaborn git update to get released in a stable version, you can try one of the solutions in the issue page. specifically henrymartin1's suggestion to try manually passing in a small bandwidth inside a try/catch block (suggested by ahartikainen) which grabs the text of this specific error (so other errors still get raised):

try:
    sns.distplot(df)
except RuntimeError as re:
    if str(re).startswith("Selected KDE bandwidth is 0. Cannot estimate density."):
        sns.distplot(df, kde_kws={'bw': 0.1})
    else:
        raise re

This worked for me.