more Pandas backend options

Author: nicolaskruchten

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [4.9.0] - unreleased
+
+### Updated
+
+- Added all cartesian-2d Plotly Express functions, plus `imshow` to Pandas backend with `kind` option
+
 ## [4.8.2] - unreleased
 
 ### Fixed

doc/python/pandas-backend.md

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fig.show()
 
 ### Supported Methods
 
-The Plotly backend supports the following `kind`s of Pandas plots: `scatter`, `line`, `area`, `bar`, `barh`, `hist` and `box`, via the call pattern `df.plot(kind='scatter')` or `df.plot.scatter()`. These delegate to the corresponding Plotly Express functions.
+The Plotly backend supports the following `kind`s of Pandas plots: `scatter`, `line`, `area`, `bar`, `barh`, `hist` and `box`, via the call pattern `df.plot(kind='scatter')` or `df.plot.scatter()`. These delegate to the corresponding Plotly Express functions. In addition, the following are valid options to the `kind` argument of `df.plot()`: `violin`, `strip`, `funnel`, `density_heatmap`, `density_contour` and `imshow`, even though the call pattern `df.plot.violin()` is not supported for these kinds of charts, per the Pandas API.
 
 ```python
 import pandas as pd
@@ -198,4 +198,4 @@ fig.show()
 
 ### What about Cufflinks?
 
-There also exists an independent third-party wrapper library around Plotly called [Cufflinks](https://github.com/santosjorge/cufflinks), which provides similar functionality (with an API closer to that of Pandas' default `matplotlib` backend) by adding a `.iplot()` method to Pandas dataframes, as it was developed before Pandas supported configurable backends. Issues and questions regarding Cufflinks should be [raised in the Cufflinks repository](https://github.com/santosjorge/cufflinks/issues/new).
+There also exists an independent third-party wrapper library around Plotly called [Cufflinks](https://github.com/santosjorge/cufflinks), which provides similar functionality (with an API closer to that of Pandas' default `matplotlib` backend) by adding a `.iplot()` method to Pandas dataframes, as it was developed before Pandas supported configurable backends. Issues and questions regarding Cufflinks should be [raised in the Cufflinks repository](https://github.com/santosjorge/cufflinks/issues/new).

packages/python/plotly/plotly/__init__.py

@@ -83,7 +83,20 @@ def plot(data_frame, kind, **kwargs):
     To activate, set pandas.options.plotting.backend="plotly"
     See https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/plotting/__init__.py
     """
-    from .express import scatter, line, area, bar, box, histogram
+    from .express import (
+        scatter,
+        line,
+        area,
+        bar,
+        box,
+        histogram,
+        violin,
+        strip,
+        funnel,
+        density_contour,
+        density_heatmap,
+        imshow,
+    )
 
     if kind == "scatter":
         new_kwargs = {k: kwargs[k] for k in kwargs if k not in ["s", "c"]}
@@ -99,9 +112,27 @@ def plot(data_frame, kind, **kwargs):
     if kind == "box":
         new_kwargs = {k: kwargs[k] for k in kwargs if k not in ["by"]}
         return box(data_frame, **new_kwargs)
-    if kind in "hist":
+    if kind in ["hist", "histogram"]:
         new_kwargs = {k: kwargs[k] for k in kwargs if k not in ["by", "bins"]}
         return histogram(data_frame, **new_kwargs)
+    if kind == "violin":
+        return violin(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "strip":
+        return strip(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "funnel":
+        return funnel(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "density_contour":
+        return density_contour(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "density_heatmap":
+        return density_heatmap(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "imshow":
+        return imshow(data_frame, **kwargs)
+    if kind == "heatmap":
+        raise ValueError(
+            "kind='heatmap' not supported plotting.backend='plotly'. "
+            "Please use kind='imshow' or kind='density_heatmap'."
+        )
+
     raise NotImplementedError(
         "kind='%s' not yet supported for plotting.backend='plotly'" % kind
     )

packages/python/plotly/plotly/tests/test_core/test_px/test_pandas_backend.py

@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@
         (lambda df: df.boxplot(), px.box),
         (lambda df: df.hist(), px.histogram),
         (lambda df: df["A"].hist(), lambda df: px.histogram(df["A"])),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="line"), px.line),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="area"), px.area),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="bar"), px.bar),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="box"), px.box),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="hist"), px.histogram),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="histogram"), px.histogram),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="violin"), px.violin),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="strip"), px.strip),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="funnel"), px.funnel),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="density_contour"), px.density_contour),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="density_heatmap"), px.density_heatmap),
+        (lambda df: df.plot(kind="imshow"), px.imshow),
     ],
 )
 def test_pandas_equiv(pandas_fn, px_fn):