Pandas: how to plot with custom colors and symbols

Question

How can I use colors that have a long name and custom markers in Pandas?

With standard colors I would do:

df.plot(style = 'ro')

but I cannot do:

df.plot(style = 'lightgreeno')

I tried:

df.plot(color = 'lightgreen', style = 'o')

but I get:

ValueError: Cannot pass 'style' string with a color symbol and 'color' keyword argument. Please use one or the other or pass 'style' without a color symbol

any ideas?

Answer 1

style wraps color and marker and linestyle together. As soon as you specify one of those explicitly, you need to be explicit about any of them. An example from the plot documentation:

plot(x, y, color='green', linestyle='dashed', marker='o', markerfacecolor='blue', markersize=12).

so in your line change style to marker :

df.plot(color = 'lightgreen', marker = 'o')