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How do you make Matplotlib is_color_like reject numeric strings before scatter raises an RGBA ValueError?

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`is_color_like` returning erroneous value on strings of integers
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### Bug report

**Bug summary**

`matplotlib.colors.is_color_like` returns `True` on strings containing integers, even though these are invalid colours when passed to `plt.scatter` or equivalent.

**Code for reproduction**

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```python
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

c = np.arange(1000).astype(str)
X = np.random.normal(0, 1, [1000, 2])

assert all([matplotlib.colors.is_color_like(color) for color in c])
plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=c)
```

**Actual outcome**

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```
>>> import matplotlib
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> import numpy as np
>>>
>>> c = np.arange(1000).astype(str)
>>> X = np.random.normal(0, 1, [1000, 2])
>>>
>>> assert all([matplotlib.colors.is_color_like(color) for color in c])
>>> plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=c)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 2864, in scatter
    is not None else {}), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1810, in inner
    return func(ax, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py", line 4297, in scatter
    alpha=alpha
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 899, in __init__
    Collection.__init__(self, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 131, in __init__
    self.set_facecolor(facecolors)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 685, in set_facecolor
    self._set_facecolor(c)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 668, in _set_facecolor
    self._facecolors = mcolors.to_rgba_array(c, self._alpha)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py", line 260, in to_rgba_array
    raise ValueError("RGBA values should be within 0-1 range")
ValueError: RGBA values should be within 0-1 range
```

**Expected outcome**

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I would expect either the `scatter` call to successfully recognise these as colours, or the `is_color_like` calls to return `False`. The latter is what I would expect of these two.

**Matplotlib version**
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  * Operating system: Arch Linux
  * Matplotlib version: 3.0.2
  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): Qt5Agg
  * Python version: Python 3.7.1
  * Jupyter version (if applicable): N/A
  * Other libraries: `numpy` 1.15.0

`matplotlib` installed from `pip`. The example code runs without any errors on Windows, Python 3.6, `matplotlib` 2.2.2.
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Primary terms

ValueErroris_color_likelib/matplotlib/colors.pymatplotlib/matplotlibmatplotlib.colors.is_color_liketo_rgba_arrayto_rgbaplt.scatterset_facecolor_set_facecolorCollection.__init__lib/matplotlib/collections.py

Technical objective

Remove the inconsistency between Matplotlib's colour predicate and Matplotlib's colour conversion: a value for which matplotlib.colors.is_color_like reports True must be convertible by the colour conversion routines, and a value the conversion routines reject must not be reported as colour-like.

Success condition

for strings of the form produced by np.arange(1000).astype(str), the predicate and the conversion agree, so that either both accept them or both reject them, and the previously supported string colour spellings (named colours, hex, CN cycle references, and grayscale strings) keep working unchanged.

Search fingerprints

  • Error signature: ValueError
  • Traceback path: lib/matplotlib/colors.py
  • Repository: matplotlib/matplotlib
  • Issue title: ` is_color_like returning erroneous value on strings of integers `.
  • Symbols: matplotlib.colors.is_color_like, to_rgba_array, to_rgba, plt.scatter, set_facecolor, _set_facecolor, Collection.__init__.
  • Files: lib/matplotlib/colors.py, lib/matplotlib/collections.py, lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py, lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py.
  • Verbatim error string: ValueError: RGBA values should be within 0-1 range.
  • Reproduction: c = np.arange(1000).astype(str), plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=c), assert all([matplotlib.colors.is_color_like(color) for color in c]).
  • Environment details quoted in the report: Matplotlib 3.0.2, backend Qt5Agg, Python 3.7.1, numpy 1.15.0, Arch Linux, "runs without any errors on Windows, Python 3.6, matplotlib 2.2.2".

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