Can anyone tell me the solution of this ValueError in MatPlotLib? - matplotlib

Question

When I'm plotting some random scatter plot an error occurred. Can someone solve it?
The code is
# Date 27-06-2021
import time
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import random as rd
def rd_color():
random_number = rd.randint(0, 16777215)
hex_number = str(hex(random_number))
hex_number = '#' + hex_number[2:]
return hex_number
arr1_for_x = np.linspace(10, 99, 1000)
arr1_for_y = np.random.uniform(10, 99, 1000)
# print(rd_color())
for i in range(1000):
plt.scatter(arr1_for_x[i:i+1], arr1_for_y[i:i+1], s=5,
linewidths=0, color=rd_color())
plt.show()
and the ValueError is
ValueError: 'color' kwarg must be a color or sequence of color specs. For a sequence of values to be color-mapped, use the 'c' argument instead.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4289, in _parse_scatter_color_args
mcolors.to_rgba_array(kwcolor)
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colors.py", line 367, in to_rgba_array
raise ValueError("Using a string of single character colors as "
ValueError: Using a string of single character colors as a color sequence is not supported. The colors can be passed as an explicit list instead.
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Google Drive\tp\Programming\Python\tp2.py", line 24, in <module>
plt.scatter(arr1_for_x[i:i+1], arr1_for_y[i:i+1], s=5,
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 3068, in scatter
__ret = gca().scatter(
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 1361, in inner
return func(ax, *map(sanitize_sequence, args), **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4516, in scatter
self._parse_scatter_color_args(
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4291, in _parse_scatter_color_args
raise ValueError(
ValueError: 'color' kwarg must be an color or sequence of color specs. For a sequence of values to be color-mapped, use the 'c' argument instead.
after this error I also use c in-place of color
# Date 27-06-2021
import time
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import random as rd
def rd_color():
random_number = rd.randint(0, 16777215)
hex_number = str(hex(random_number))
hex_number = '#' + hex_number[2:]
return str(hex_number)
arr1_for_x = np.linspace(10, 99, 1000)
arr1_for_y = np.random.uniform(10, 99, 1000)
# print(rd_color())
for i in range(1000):
plt.scatter(arr1_for_x[i:i+1], arr1_for_y[i:i+1], s=5,
linewidths=0, c=rd_color())
plt.show()
but again error occured
this time the error is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4350, in _parse_scatter_color_args
colors = mcolors.to_rgba_array(c)
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\colors.py", line 367, in to_rgba_array
raise ValueError("Using a string of single character colors as "
ValueError: Using a string of single character colors as a color sequence is not supported. The colors can be passed as an explicit list instead.
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Google Drive\tp\Programming\Python\tp2.py", line 22, in <module>
plt.scatter(arr1_for_x[i:i+1], arr1_for_y[i:i+1], s=5,
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 3068, in scatter
__ret = gca().scatter(
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 1361, in inner
return func(ax, *map(sanitize_sequence, args), **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4516, in scatter
self._parse_scatter_color_args(
File "C:\Users\amanr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 4359, in _parse_scatter_color_args
raise ValueError(
ValueError: 'c' argument must be a color, a sequence of colors, or a sequence of numbers, not #814aa
please anyone resolve/spell it out for me.

Answer 1

The way I read Matplotlib's Tutorial on Specifying Colours, the hex literals need to have exactly 6 or 3 "hex digits".

Answer 2

This will work:
for i in range(1000):
myColor=rd_color()
plt.scatter(arr1_for_x[i:i+1], arr1_for_y[i:i+1], s=5,
linewidths=0, color=[myColor])
plt.show()
Because you cannot call a function inside this color specification and your colors must be in a list, so define a variable for that color and pass it as list into your color parameter.