better error report when both style and color are passed to Series.plot

[Meobius]

The following command returns an error message for a Series

s.plot(style='k--', color='k')

It says that the color '[k]' is not recognized.

I am using pandas 0.11 so it may have been fixed in 0.12.

[cpcloud]

you should do

s.plot(style='--', color='k')

matplotlib will just show you an empty plot with plot(s, linestyle='k--') and pandas will throw an error (more useful IMO)

there's no need to have style accept a string with a color name in it since as you show there's a color param to do that

for some reason MATLAB thought it was a good idea to couple line style and color 😑

this should report a better error tho for sure

[cpcloud]

you can also leave out color and do it matlab style as well, but it doesn't make sense to have both

s.plot(style='k--')

[Meobius]

Ok great thanks
On 31 Jul 2013 15:23, "Phillip Cloud" notifications@github.com wrote:

you can also leave out color and do it matlab style as well, but it
doesn't make sense to have both

s.plot(style='k--')

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