From 08f2e3bda4f745210d2005963a957f9eec576b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brock Mendel <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:06:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Define DataFrame plot methods in DataFrame

instead of pinning them on at the bottom of the module.

Tried doing this with Series last week and it caused a circular import problem.  Hopefully
cleaning this but of DataFrame up won't be as difficult
---
 pandas/core/frame.py | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 9a79ca1d4eab1..f3ec111c370a1 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -5651,12 +5651,32 @@ def isin(self, values):
                                 values).reshape(self.shape), self.index,
                 self.columns)
 
+    # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Add plotting methods to DataFrame
+    plot = base.AccessorProperty(gfx.FramePlotMethods, gfx.FramePlotMethods)
+    hist = gfx.hist_frame
+
+    @Appender(_shared_docs['boxplot'] % _shared_doc_kwargs)
+    def boxplot(self, column=None, by=None, ax=None, fontsize=None, rot=0,
+                grid=True, figsize=None, layout=None,
+                return_type=None, **kwds):
+        from pandas.plotting._core import boxplot
+        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+        ax = boxplot(self, column=column, by=by, ax=ax, fontsize=fontsize,
+                     grid=grid, rot=rot, figsize=figsize, layout=layout,
+                     return_type=return_type, **kwds)
+        plt.draw_if_interactive()
+        return ax
+
 
 DataFrame._setup_axes(['index', 'columns'], info_axis=1, stat_axis=0,
                       axes_are_reversed=True, aliases={'rows': 0})
 DataFrame._add_numeric_operations()
 DataFrame._add_series_or_dataframe_operations()
 
+ops.add_flex_arithmetic_methods(DataFrame, **ops.frame_flex_funcs)
+ops.add_special_arithmetic_methods(DataFrame, **ops.frame_special_funcs)
+
 _EMPTY_SERIES = Series([])
 
 
@@ -6002,28 +6022,3 @@ def _from_nested_dict(data):
 
 def _put_str(s, space):
     return ('%s' % s)[:space].ljust(space)
-
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Add plotting methods to DataFrame
-DataFrame.plot = base.AccessorProperty(gfx.FramePlotMethods,
-                                       gfx.FramePlotMethods)
-DataFrame.hist = gfx.hist_frame
-
-
-@Appender(_shared_docs['boxplot'] % _shared_doc_kwargs)
-def boxplot(self, column=None, by=None, ax=None, fontsize=None, rot=0,
-            grid=True, figsize=None, layout=None, return_type=None, **kwds):
-    from pandas.plotting._core import boxplot
-    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-    ax = boxplot(self, column=column, by=by, ax=ax, fontsize=fontsize,
-                 grid=grid, rot=rot, figsize=figsize, layout=layout,
-                 return_type=return_type, **kwds)
-    plt.draw_if_interactive()
-    return ax
-
-
-DataFrame.boxplot = boxplot
-
-ops.add_flex_arithmetic_methods(DataFrame, **ops.frame_flex_funcs)
-ops.add_special_arithmetic_methods(DataFrame, **ops.frame_special_funcs)

From f8f46fa75e1d0f42256be2896ac53dae9a006913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brock Mendel <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:12:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Define boxplot as boxplot_frame in plotting._core;

Request from jreback
---
 pandas/core/frame.py     | 13 +------------
 pandas/plotting/_core.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index f3ec111c370a1..0cd1c0e05ce21 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -5655,18 +5655,7 @@ def isin(self, values):
     # Add plotting methods to DataFrame
     plot = base.AccessorProperty(gfx.FramePlotMethods, gfx.FramePlotMethods)
     hist = gfx.hist_frame
-
-    @Appender(_shared_docs['boxplot'] % _shared_doc_kwargs)
-    def boxplot(self, column=None, by=None, ax=None, fontsize=None, rot=0,
-                grid=True, figsize=None, layout=None,
-                return_type=None, **kwds):
-        from pandas.plotting._core import boxplot
-        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-        ax = boxplot(self, column=column, by=by, ax=ax, fontsize=fontsize,
-                     grid=grid, rot=rot, figsize=figsize, layout=layout,
-                     return_type=return_type, **kwds)
-        plt.draw_if_interactive()
-        return ax
+    boxplot = gfx.boxplot_frame
 
 
 DataFrame._setup_axes(['index', 'columns'], info_axis=1, stat_axis=0,
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_core.py b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
index a623288efc1ae..de96d17da2a9f 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
@@ -2034,6 +2034,18 @@ def plot_group(keys, values, ax):
     return result
 
 
+@Appender(_shared_docs['boxplot'] % _shared_doc_kwargs)
+def boxplot_frame(self, column=None, by=None, ax=None, fontsize=None, rot=0,
+                  grid=True, figsize=None, layout=None,
+                  return_type=None, **kwds):
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+    ax = boxplot(self, column=column, by=by, ax=ax, fontsize=fontsize,
+                 grid=grid, rot=rot, figsize=figsize, layout=layout,
+                 return_type=return_type, **kwds)
+    plt.draw_if_interactive()
+    return ax
+
+
 def scatter_plot(data, x, y, by=None, ax=None, figsize=None, grid=False,
                  **kwargs):
     """