BUG: fix handling of color argument for variety of plotting functions

doc/source/release.rst

@@ -229,6 +229,14 @@ Deprecations
   returned if possible, otherwise a copy will be made. Previously the user could think that ``copy=False`` would
   ALWAYS return a view. (:issue:`6894`)
 
+- The :func:`parallel_coordinates` function now takes argument ``color``
+  instead of ``colors``. A ``FutureWarning`` is raised  to alert that
+  the old ``colors`` argument will not be supported in a future release
+
+- The :func:`parallel_coordinates` and :func:`andrews_curves` functions now take 
+  positional argument ``frame`` instead of ``data``. A ``FutureWarning`` is 
+  raised  if the old ``data`` argument is used by name.
+
 Prior Version Deprecations/Changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -460,6 +468,10 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in timeseries-with-frequency plot cursor display (:issue:`5453`)
 - Bug surfaced in groupby.plot when using a ``Float64Index`` (:issue:`7025`)
 - Stopped tests from failing if options data isn't able to be downloaded from Yahoo (:issue:`7034`)
+- Bug in ``parallel_coordinates`` and ``radviz`` where reordering of class column 
+  caused possible color/class mismatch
+- Bug in ``radviz`` and ``andrews_curves`` where multiple values of 'color'
+  were being passed to plotting method
 
 pandas 0.13.1
 -------------

doc/source/v0.14.0.txt

@@ -382,6 +382,14 @@ Plotting
 
   Because of the default `align` value changes, coordinates of bar plots are now located on integer values (0.0, 1.0, 2.0 ...). This is intended to make bar plot be located on the same coodinates as line plot. However, bar plot may differs unexpectedly when you manually adjust the bar location or drawing area, such as using `set_xlim`, `set_ylim`, etc. In this cases, please modify your script to meet with new coordinates.
 
+- The :func:`parallel_coordinates` function now takes argument ``color``
+  instead of ``colors``. A ``FutureWarning`` is raised  to alert that
+  the old ``colors`` argument will not be supported in a future release
+
+- The :func:`parallel_coordinates` and :func:`andrews_curves` functions now take 
+  positional argument ``frame`` instead of ``data``. A ``FutureWarning`` is 
+  raised  if the old ``data`` argument is used by name.
+
 .. _whatsnew_0140.prior_deprecations:
 
 Prior Version Deprecations/Changes

pandas/tests/test_graphics.py

@@ -1220,11 +1220,29 @@ def scat2(x, y, by=None, ax=None, figsize=None):
     def test_andrews_curves(self):
         from pandas import read_csv
         from pandas.tools.plotting import andrews_curves
-
+        from matplotlib import cm
+
         path = os.path.join(curpath(), 'data', 'iris.csv')
         df = read_csv(path)
 
         _check_plot_works(andrews_curves, df, 'Name')
+        _check_plot_works(andrews_curves, df, 'Name',
+                          color=('#556270', '#4ECDC4', '#C7F464'))
+        _check_plot_works(andrews_curves, df, 'Name',
+                          color=['dodgerblue', 'aquamarine', 'seagreen'])
+        _check_plot_works(andrews_curves, df, 'Name', colormap=cm.jet)
+
+        colors = ['b', 'g', 'r']
+        df = DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "B": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "C": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "Name": colors})
+        ax = andrews_curves(df, 'Name', color=colors)
+        legend_colors = [l.get_color() for l in ax.legend().get_lines()]
+        self.assertEqual(colors, legend_colors)
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
+            andrews_curves(data=df, class_column='Name')
 
     @slow
     def test_parallel_coordinates(self):
@@ -1235,20 +1253,31 @@ def test_parallel_coordinates(self):
         df = read_csv(path)
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name')
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name',
-                          colors=('#556270', '#4ECDC4', '#C7F464'))
-        _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name',
-                          colors=['dodgerblue', 'aquamarine', 'seagreen'])
+                          color=('#556270', '#4ECDC4', '#C7F464'))
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name',
-                          colors=('#556270', '#4ECDC4', '#C7F464'))
-        _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name',
-                          colors=['dodgerblue', 'aquamarine', 'seagreen'])
+                          color=['dodgerblue', 'aquamarine', 'seagreen'])
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name', colormap=cm.jet)
 
         df = read_csv(path, header=None, skiprows=1, names=[1, 2, 4, 8,
                                                             'Name'])
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name', use_columns=True)
         _check_plot_works(parallel_coordinates, df, 'Name',
                           xticks=[1, 5, 25, 125])
+
+        colors = ['b', 'g', 'r']
+        df = DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "B": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "C": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "Name": colors})
+        ax = parallel_coordinates(df, 'Name', color=colors)
+        legend_colors = [l.get_color() for l in ax.legend().get_lines()]
+        self.assertEqual(colors, legend_colors)
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
+            parallel_coordinates(df, 'Name', colors=colors)
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
+            parallel_coordinates(data=df, class_column='Name')
 
     @slow
     def test_radviz(self):
@@ -1259,8 +1288,24 @@ def test_radviz(self):
         path = os.path.join(curpath(), 'data', 'iris.csv')
         df = read_csv(path)
         _check_plot_works(radviz, df, 'Name')
+        _check_plot_works(radviz, df, 'Name',
+                          color=('#556270', '#4ECDC4', '#C7F464'))
+        _check_plot_works(radviz, df, 'Name',
+                          color=['dodgerblue', 'aquamarine', 'seagreen'])
         _check_plot_works(radviz, df, 'Name', colormap=cm.jet)
 
+        colors = [[0., 0., 1., 1.],
+                  [0., 0.5, 1., 1.],
+                  [1., 0., 0., 1.]]
+        df = DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3],
+                        "B": [2, 1, 3],
+                        "C": [3, 2, 1],
+                        "Name": ['b', 'g', 'r']})
+        ax = radviz(df, 'Name', color=colors)
+        legend_colors = [c.get_facecolor().squeeze().tolist()
+                         for c in ax.collections]
+        self.assertEqual(colors, legend_colors)
+
     @slow
     def test_plot_int_columns(self):
         df = DataFrame(randn(100, 4)).cumsum()