I am trying to make a barplot in Seaborn, but I am struggling to set the x axis limits. I have data for a set range, but I want to set the x axis limits to a larger range than that! When I try to set the x axis limits, the entire plot disappears! Here is a small reproducible example. Creating a dataframe:

df = pd.Series([np.random.normal()**2 for x in range(7)], 
        pd.date_range(start = "2024-01-01", end = "2024-01-07"))

And trying to create a barplot:

date_rng = pd.date_range(start = "2024-01-01", end = "2024-01-10")

date_range_mpl = mdates.date2num(date_rng)
x_vals = mdates.date2num(df.index)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (8,4))
sns.barplot(x = x_vals, y = df.values, ax = ax)
ax.set_xlim(date_range_mpl[0] - 1, date_range_mpl[-1] + 1)

The plot breaks at the last line, when trying to set the x axis limits.

The reason for the mdates.date2num function, is that apparently Seaborn isn’t that compatible with pandas datetime objects, so I was recommended to convert these objects to matplotlib’s datetime objects (which are just floats) first. I can’t figure out why this isn’t working! Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.