Plotting profile hitstograms in python

I am trying to make a profile plot for two columns of a pandas.DataFrame. I would not expect this to be in pandas directly but it seems there is nothing in matplotlib either. I have searched around and cannot find it in any package other than rootpy. Before I take the time to write this myself I thought I would ask if there was a small package that contained profile histograms, perhaps where they are known by a different name.

If you don't know what I mean by "profile histogram" have a look at the ROOT implementation. http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TProfile.html