title: Matplotlib boxplot show only max and min fliers
body: <p>I am making standard Matplotlib boxplots using the plt.boxplot() command.
  My line of code that creates the boxplot is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bp = plt.boxplot(data, whis=[5, 95], showfliers=True)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Because my data has a large distribution, I am getting a lot of fliers outside the range of the whiskers. To get a cleaner publication quality plot, I would like to only show single fliers at the max. and at the min. values of the data, instead of all fliers. Is this possible? I don't see any built-in options in the documentation to do this.</p>
  
  <p>(I can set the range of the whiskers to max/min, but this is not what I want. I would like to keep the whiskers at the 5th and 95th percentiles).</p>
  
  <p>Below is the figure I am working on. Notice the density of fliers.
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zVeBA.png" alt="Boxplots"></p>