unable to set xticks within bar() plotting function

[evfro]

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

In the code below:

pd.Series(range(10), index=range(10)).plot.bar(xticks=range(0, 11, 2))

xticks argument has no effect. However, there's no such problem in line() plot.

Expected Output

Output plot is expected to have xticks defined by xticks argument, e.g. in the example above it should be set to [0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10].

output of pd.show_versions()

commit: None
python: 2.7.12.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 10
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: None

pandas: 0.18.1
nose: None
pip: 8.1.2
setuptools: 23.0.0
Cython: None
numpy: 1.11.1
scipy: 0.17.1
statsmodels: None
xarray: 0.8.1
IPython: 5.0.0
sphinx: None
patsy: None
dateutil: 2.5.3
pytz: 2016.4
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: None
numexpr: None
matplotlib: 1.5.1
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: None
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.8
boto: None
pandas_datareader: None

[TomAugspurger]

We'd need to decide what to do if len(series) isn't equal to len(xticks), I assume matplotlib will just throw and error, which is probably fine.

Mind stepping through tools/plotting.py to see what's going on?

[evfro]

At first glance it doesn't look very straightforward. I'll look more closely a bit later.