KingOtto123

Fantastic code example, and great workaround/solution. Both work (re-using figure, using "Agg"). Can someone explain (a) why this happens (370 is a particularly weird integer - why does it crash...

Thanks, [rhshadrach](https://github.com/rhshadrach)! As this was a "discussion expected", let me add a few points where I think I disagree with you, and why I would still calls this a highly...

A final comment: I don't really agree with your "recommendation". It's not so much about relying on pandas to cast properly, but sometimes you may want some flexibility. For example,...

This will lead to people setting `ds = pd.Series(None, index=my_index, dtype=object)` - which is far worse than allowing anything to overwrite `NaN` only, no? (by the way not my idea,...

Got you. .. However, agree to disagree. If we were talking C++, Fortran (where types MUST be declared), I would agree with the logic "users have to shoot themselves". I...