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Hi. I'm interested in creating a date plot showing bandwidth along a 
link. I want to have a dot in the center of each date with the 
average bandwidth and use the error bars to show the 25th and 75th 
percentiles. I've been trying to figure out how to do this and am 
having problems.
 From my reading, errorbar() is a plot type, just like plot() and 
plot_date(). So there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to combine 
them. Am I missing something ?
Do I need to manually build this?

Robert and any other spy users:
I have committed to svn a new axes method, spy3, that combines a 
modification of the functionality of both spy and spy2. I hope you can 
check it out. If it looks OK, then I would like to simply replace spy 
and spy2 with this combined version. In that case the pylab interface, 
which now gives access to spy and spy2, would have a single spy function 
which would access the new version. My suspicion is that spy is used 
almost entirely in interactive mode, and probably not by very many 
people, so that this changeover can be made quickly with little 
disruption to present users.
Attached is a script illustrating the difference in the way spy3 
displays a matrix (it matches the way it is printed: first index is row 
number, second is column number, row number increases down) versus what 
spy and spy2 do (first index is X, second index is Y).
Also attached is the diff for spy3.
Users may want to comment in particular on the default for the "aspect" 
kwarg. Presently it is set to "equal" so that the shape of the plot is 
the shape of the array with square cells. This differs from spy and 
spy2. The rationale is that it gives the best picture of what the array 
looks like, including its shape.
Eric
Robert Cimrman wrote:
> Eric Firing wrote:
>> One more miscellaneous thought: perhaps spy and spy2 should be 
>> consolidated into a single function with a kwarg to select the marker 
>> version or the image version? Their purpose is identical (isn't it?), 
>> and it would reduce namespace clutter.
> 
> one more thing here: usually (e.g. in Matlab) the y axis is reversed, so
> that one sees the sparsity pattern in the same position as one would see
> on paper when writing down the corresponding system of linear equations.
> (I use my own spy, with ax.set_ylim( ax.get_ylim()[::-1] ) for this
> purpose.)
> 
> just my 2 cents, in case of the consolidation,
> r.
> 

Hi,
If I use LATEX fonts in my graph, the following command does not
rotate the labels properly (it scrambles the labels in a weird way):
setp (ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, fontsize=8) (this doesn't work)
Changing the rotation to 90 degress works though:
setp (ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=90, fontsize=8) (this works)
Also there are no problems if I don't use the LATEX fonts.
Is this a known issue, and is there any solution to this if I want my
labels 45 degrees rotated by still using the latex fonts?
Thanks,
Oguz