Coming in late to the discussion but I have just spent a few minutes trying to determine what I did wrong on my scatter graphs...

I thought c stood as an acronym for color as fc stands for facecolor etcetera... however this does not apply here, specifying color='green' instead of c='green' means you set the edge-colour to green instead of the face-colour...

Should I open an issue/PR about this? Or can people live with this inconsistency?

As far as I understand it, 'c' should be an alias for 'color'. Furthermore,
'color' should specify both edge and face colors, unless explicitly
overriden by 'facecolor' and such.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:45 PM, OceanWolf notifications@github.com
wrote:

In lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
#4079 (comment):

•    if ec is not None:
  

•        edgecolors = ec
  

•    fc = kwargs.pop('facecolor', None)
  

•    if fc is not None:
  

•        facecolors = fc
  

•    fc = kwargs.pop('facecolors', None)
  

•    if fc is not None:
  

•        facecolors = fc
  

•    # 'color' should be deprecated in scatter, or clearly defined;
  

•    # since it isn't, I am giving it low priority.
  

•    co = kwargs.pop('color', None)
  

•    if co is not None:
  

•        if edgecolors is None:
  

•            edgecolors = co
  

•        if facecolors is None:
  

•            facecolors = co
  

Coming in late to the discussion but I have just spent a few minutes
trying to determine what I did wrong on my scatter graphs...

I thought c stood as an acronym for color as fc stands for facecolor
etcetera... however this does not apply here, specifying color='green'
instead of c='green' means you set the edge-colour to green instead of
the face-colour...

Should I open an issue/PR about this? Or can people live with this
inconsistency?

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This is a confusing mess for historical reasons. It looks like there might be a need for "facecolors=None" in the arg list, along with "edgecolors=None". I suspect I had a reason for not including this in the PR, but I don't remember; maybe it is worth a try.