Change colours of Pandas bar chart

Question

I want the bars in a Pandas chart to each be given a different colour. The solution looks pretty simple according to this post and ones like it.

When I try to emulat

Answer 1

Let's use this code instead:

df.plot(kind='bar',    # Plot a bar chart
        legend=False,    # Turn the Legend off
        width=0.75,      # Set bar width as 75% of space available
        figsize=(8,5.8),  # Set size of plot in inches
        color=[plt.cm.Paired(np.arange(len(df)))])