[Matplotlib-users] ax.bar edgecolor fails for scalar color?

[Andrew Jaffe]

Hi,

I've been working through Ben Root's excellent Anatomy of Matplotlib 
tutorial at https://github.com/matplotlib/AnatomyOfMatplotlib/.

In the course of this (exercise 2.1 in particular), I've noticed that 
the `edgecolor` argument to `ax.bar(...)` doesn't work as advertised:

 > edgecolor : scalar or array-like, optional
 >    the colors of the bar edges

However, it doesn't seem to work as a scalar: in that case it only 
applies to the first bar; instead you need to supply `(color,)*len(x)` 
or similar.

It fails the same way whether or not we use something like 
`plt.style.use('classic')` or `mpl.rcParams['patch.force_edgecolor'] = True`

Is this a bug, something weird in my setup, or am I missing something?

Andrew