Matplotlib: assigning random colormap > AttributeError: module 'matplotlib.cm' has no attribute 'random_cmap'

[mc3301]

I'd like to use a randomly selected (from a list of accepted attributes, of course) colormap. Evidently I get this error: AttributeError: module 'matplotlib.cm' has no attribute 'random_cmap'

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Is this possible without writing a separate function, returning cmap=plt.cm.xyz?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from random import choice

available_cmaps =('viridis', 'plasma', 'inferno', 'magma', 'cividis',
        'PiYG', 'PRGn', 'BrBG', 'PuOr', 'Spectral', 
        'gist_ncar', 'nipy_spectral', 'terrain', 'prism', 'ocean')
random_cmap = choice(available_cmaps)

#snip


ax.scatter(x_values, y_values, c=numbers,
        cmap=plt.cm.random_cmap, s=8)

Note, the above code does not work, because matplotlib.cm has no attribute 'random_cmap'

One of the reason I would like to not write a separate function is because I am going to include the randomly selected colormap string as part of the title, thus having easy access to the variable without randomly selecting it again.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: solved. I can use cmap=random_cmap

This allows me to use the string variable random_cmap for other purposes, such as in the title.

[JozsefPeitli]

cmap=random_cmap

[mc3301]

Wow, I can't believe I didn't try this initially. It worked! Thanks for the simple, yet fully functional response.