Change color of selected histogram bin bar, given it's value

Question

Similar to a question I asked previously, I have a MWE like this:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np

pd.Series(np.random.normal(0, 100, 1000)).plot(kind='hist', bins=50, color='orange')

bar_value_to_colour = 102

I then want to use the bar_value_to_colour variable to automatically change the colour of the bar on the histogram in which the value resides to blue, for example:

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

It's easy to get the x coordinate of the bar with rectangle.get_x() but the problem is that the bars aren't plotted exactly at the specific values so I've had to choose the closest one. Here is my solution:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

s = pd.Series(np.random.normal(0, 100, 10000))
p = s.plot(kind='hist', bins=50, color='orange')

bar_value_to_label = 100
min_distance = float("inf")  # initialize min_distance with infinity
index_of_bar_to_label = 0
for i, rectangle in enumerate(p.patches):  # iterate over every bar
    tmp = abs(  # tmp = distance from middle of the bar to bar_value_to_label
        (rectangle.get_x() +
            (rectangle.get_width() * (1 / 2))) - bar_value_to_label)
    if tmp < min_distance:  # we are searching for the bar with x cordinate
                            # closest to bar_value_to_label
        min_distance = tmp
        index_of_bar_to_label = i
p.patches[index_of_bar_to_label].set_color('b')

plt.show()

returns: