Fixing bug with matplotlib 2

Author: Marc Garcia

pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/__init__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-
 from pandas._config import get_option
 
 from pandas.plotting._matplotlib.boxplot import (
@@ -31,6 +29,10 @@
 
 
 def plot(data, kind, **kwargs):
+    # Importing pyplot at the top of the file (before the converters are
+    # registered) causes problems in matplotlib 2 (converters seem to not
+    # work)
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
     if kwargs.pop('reuse_plot', False):
         ax = kwargs.get('ax')
         if ax is None and len(plt.get_fignums()) > 0: