Warn about scatter(colors=...)

[davidwagner]

Once we've released the version with supports for scatter(group=) and have converted assignments and textbook (PR #384), let's warn on use of scatter(color=). See #384 (comment).

[adnanhemani]

I've seen some commits to the Textbook regarding the API change. Have we done this to the assignments yet?

[davidwagner]

Textbook change is done. Haven't made the changes to assignments yet.

[davidwagner]

Both changes are now done.

[davidwagner]

I propose that the next step is to create a pull request that deprecates scatter(colors=) and warns on use of it, but still supports that functionality for now (so we don't break older code).

[adityakuppa26]

@adnanhemani @davidwagner Fixed the issue in #451

[adnanhemani]

Closed as per #389 .

[mycarta]

Hi there
FYI colors is still used in the notebooks for the edX Data8.1x course, for example in the code cell below, from lab 05 :

from functools import lru_cache as cache
# This cache annotation makes sure that if the same year
# is passed as an argument twice, the work of computing
# the result is only carried out once and then saved.
@cache(None)
def stats_relabeled(year):
    """Relabeled and cached version of stats_for_year."""
    return stats_for_year(year).relabeled(2, 'Children per woman').relabeled(3, 'Child deaths per 1000 born')
def fertility_vs_child_mortality(year):
    """Draw a color scatter diagram comparing child mortality and fertility."""
    with_region = stats_relabeled(year).join('geo', countries.select('country', 'world_6region'), 'country')
    with_region.scatter(2, 3, sizes=1, colors=4, s=500)
    plots.xlim(0,10)
    plots.ylim(-50, 500)
    plots.title(year)
fertility_vs_child_mortality(1960)

I just completed that class and downloaded the lab notebooks for further play running them locally on my machine.
For that purpose I created a virtual env with the latest version of the datascience library (updated today to be sure).

When I run that cell, I get an error (which I was not getting when worked on the lab online).
By the way, it is an actual error, not just a warning:

I fixed the code in the cell by replacing this line:
with_region.scatter(2, 3, sizes=1, colors=4, s=500)
with this one:
with_region.scatter(2, 3, sizes=1, group=4, s=500)

I posted this also on the lab discussion board.