How to access the color attribute of a matplotlib histogram using gcf() or gca()?

Question

I have a single figure, fig, in which I plot a histogram and a line. I can access the line color by using plt.gca().get_lines()[0].set_color("Green"). How do I do the same thing, but for the histogram?

Answer 1

Does this work as you want?

plt.gca().get_children()[0].set_color("green")

Here is the full code I used and the result screenshot.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
data = np.random.randn(100)
plt.hist(data)
plt.gca().get_children()[0].set_color("green")
plt.show()