From 9c75383e2f7a3a092e555dc795e6b133358fe86e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarcoGorelli <>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:11:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] wip

---
 pandas/plotting/_core.py | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_core.py b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
index 529849e740169..0ce1ae570c6ac 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
@@ -1681,18 +1681,6 @@ def scatter(self, x, y, s=None, c=None, **kwargs) -> PlotAccessor:
             ...                       c='species',
             ...                       colormap='viridis')
         """
-        size = kwargs.pop("size", None)
-        if s is not None and size is not None:
-            raise TypeError("Specify exactly one of `s` and `size`")
-        if s is not None or size is not None:
-            kwargs["s"] = s if s is not None else size
-
-        color = kwargs.pop("color", None)
-        if c is not None and color is not None:
-            raise TypeError("Specify exactly one of `c` and `color`")
-        if c is not None or color is not None:
-            kwargs["c"] = c if c is not None else color
-
         return self(kind="scatter", x=x, y=y, **kwargs)
 
     def hexbin(

From cd96e4fb6cab84d18a428e03f66910ff30a7b50b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarcoGorelli <>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:23:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] enforce removal

---
 doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst | 1 +
 pandas/plotting/_core.py       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
index 20e99d007c798..aac471ed98de8 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - Changed default of ``numeric_only`` to ``False`` in all DataFrame methods with that argument (:issue:`46096`, :issue:`46906`)
 - Changed default of ``numeric_only`` to ``False`` in :meth:`Series.rank` (:issue:`47561`)
 - Enforced deprecation of silently dropping nuisance columns in groupby and resample operations when ``numeric_only=False`` (:issue:`41475`)
+- Enforced reversion of ``color`` as an alias for ``c`` and ``size`` as an alias for ``s`` in function :meth:`DataFrame.plot.scatter` (:issue:`49732`)
 -
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_core.py b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
index 0ce1ae570c6ac..aef1eb5d59e68 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_core.py
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ def scatter(self, x, y, s=None, c=None, **kwargs) -> PlotAccessor:
             ...                       c='species',
             ...                       colormap='viridis')
         """
-        return self(kind="scatter", x=x, y=y, **kwargs)
+        return self(kind="scatter", x=x, y=y, s=s, c=c, **kwargs)
 
     def hexbin(
         self, x, y, C=None, reduce_C_function=None, gridsize=None, **kwargs