Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Dates

I'm trying to plot dates using plot_date(), but the date for every
point is labeled on the axis, and in a verbose format, resulting in a
jumble of text making the date-axis completely unreadable. Is there
any way to control the format of the dates displayed, and ensure only
a small percentage of points are labeled on the axis?
Chris

Chris,
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-plot_date
+
google "date dateutils" site:http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html
+
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib_examples_0.87.1.zip
And if this is not enough, please be a bit more specific in your request: an 
example of code you typed and better description of wehat you expected would 
do.
Thx
P.

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Chris
On 7/31/06, Richard Albright <ral...@in...> wrote:
> take a look at the finance_work2.py code on the screenshots page:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
>
> On Mon, 2006年07月31日 at 11:52 -0400, Chris S wrote:
> > I'm trying to plot dates using plot_date(), but the date for every
> > point is labeled on the axis, and in a verbose format, resulting in a
> > jumble of text making the date-axis completely unreadable. Is there
> > any way to control the format of the dates displayed, and ensure only
> > a small percentage of points are labeled on the axis?
> >
> > Chris
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