Re: [Matplotlib-users] date demo1 not working for me

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

C M wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to mpl and want to learn date plotting.  Would like to start 
> with the demo, but date_demo1 won't run for me. (My specs:  winXP, 
> Python 2.5, matplotlib 0.9.0, numpy 1.0, and yes was connected to the 
> internet when I ran it).  I just copied into IDLE and saved it and got 
> this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/datedemo.py", line 22, in 
> <module>
>     quotes = quotes_historical_yahoo('INTC', date1, date2)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\finance.py", line 153, 
> in quotes_historical_yahoo
>     try: ret = parse_yahoo_historical(fh, asobject, adjusted)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\finance.py", line 53, 
> in parse_yahoo_historical
>     dt = datetime.date(*time.strptime(datestr, '%d-%b-%y')[:3])
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 310, in strptime
>     (data_string, format))
> ValueError: time data did not match format:  data=2003-12-01  fmt=%d-%b-%y
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  

You are not doing anything wrong.  I noticed the bug recently also.  I 
don't know when or why it started.  It is not python 2.5-specific; I see 
it while running 2.4 and svn mpl.

Thanks for reporting it.

Eric


> 
> Thanks,
> Che