From c78eb6e8c13b66411bcca95de4d73d53310ac25c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sinhrks <sinhrks@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:44:55 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: scatter with errorbar raises IndexError

---
 doc/source/v0.15.0.txt        |  1 +
 pandas/tests/test_graphics.py | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 pandas/tools/plotting.py      |  6 ++----
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/v0.15.0.txt b/doc/source/v0.15.0.txt
index 541c25c71e662..5a65d4305ec55 100644
--- a/doc/source/v0.15.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/v0.15.0.txt
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 - Bug in ``pivot_table`` performed with nameless ``index`` and ``columns`` raises ``KeyError`` (:issue:`8103`)
 
+- Bug in ``DataFrame.plot(kind='scatter')`` draws points and errorbars with different colors when the color is specified by ``c`` keyword (:issue:`8081`)
 
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py b/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
index a01574c4dd146..7694b1b087d10 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_graphics.py
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ def _check_has_errorbars(self, axes, xerr=0, yerr=0):
         yerr : number
             expected number of y errorbar
         """
-
         axes = self._flatten_visible(axes)
         for ax in axes:
             containers = ax.containers
@@ -2805,12 +2804,28 @@ def test_errorbar_scatter(self):
         self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=0, yerr=0)
         ax = _check_plot_works(df.plot, kind='scatter', x='x', y='y', xerr=df_err)
         self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=1, yerr=0)
+
         ax = _check_plot_works(df.plot, kind='scatter', x='x', y='y', yerr=df_err)
         self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=0, yerr=1)
         ax = _check_plot_works(df.plot, kind='scatter', x='x', y='y',
                                xerr=df_err, yerr=df_err)
         self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=1, yerr=1)
 
+        def _check_errorbar_color(containers, expected, has_err='has_xerr'):
+            errs = [c.lines[1][0] for c in ax.containers if getattr(c, has_err, False)]
+            self._check_colors(errs, linecolors=[expected] * len(errs))
+
+        # GH 8081
+        df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 5), columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
+        ax = df.plot(kind='scatter', x='a', y='b', xerr='d', yerr='e', c='red')
+        self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=1, yerr=1)
+        _check_errorbar_color(ax.containers, 'red', has_err='has_xerr')
+        _check_errorbar_color(ax.containers, 'red', has_err='has_yerr')
+
+        ax = df.plot(kind='scatter', x='a', y='b', yerr='e', color='green')
+        self._check_has_errorbars(ax, xerr=0, yerr=1)
+        _check_errorbar_color(ax.containers, 'green', has_err='has_yerr')
+
 
 @tm.mplskip
 class TestDataFrameGroupByPlots(TestPlotBase):
diff --git a/pandas/tools/plotting.py b/pandas/tools/plotting.py
index 07200fcab3cd4..50f3ab23babad 100644
--- a/pandas/tools/plotting.py
+++ b/pandas/tools/plotting.py
@@ -1394,15 +1394,13 @@ def _make_plot(self):
             label = None
         scatter = ax.scatter(data[x].values, data[y].values, label=label,
                              **self.kwds)
-
         self._add_legend_handle(scatter, label)
 
         errors_x = self._get_errorbars(label=x, index=0, yerr=False)
-        errors_y = self._get_errorbars(label=y, index=1, xerr=False)
+        errors_y = self._get_errorbars(label=y, index=0, xerr=False)
         if len(errors_x) > 0 or len(errors_y) > 0:
             err_kwds = dict(errors_x, **errors_y)
-            if 'color' in self.kwds:
-                err_kwds['color'] = self.kwds['color']
+            err_kwds['ecolor'] = scatter.get_facecolor()[0]
             ax.errorbar(data[x].values, data[y].values, linestyle='none', **err_kwds)
 
     def _post_plot_logic(self):