RE: [Matplotlib-users] plot date

[Jeff P. <jef...@se...>]

I added the .matplotlibrc file and that definitely helps. Thanks.

Regarding the symbols, I changed your file to the match mine and I get
symbols. Here's the change I made:

import pylab
import datetime
d1 = datetime.date( 1995, 1, 1 )
d2 = datetime.date( 2004, 1, 1 )
delta = datetime.timedelta(days=365)

dates = pylab.drange(d1,d2,delta)

y = pylab.rand(len(dates))
pylab.plot_date(dates, y, color ='r',
                               linestyle ='--',
                               linewidth = 1)
pylab.show()


what is the difference here? Thank you very much for your help.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hunter [mailto:jdh...@ni...] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:03 PM
To: Jeff Peery
Cc: mat...@li...
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot date

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Peery <jef...@se...> writes:

    Jeff> I'm using 'axes.clear()' to clear the canvas and then I call
    Jeff> plot_date.  Is there a better way to clear the plots?
    Jeff> Thanks.

That is an alias for ax.cla, should work fine.

    Jeff> Also, I tried running your script and I get this error:

    Jeff> "Warning (from warnings module):
    Jeff>   File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py",
line 604
    Jeff>     warnings.warn('Could not find .matplotlibrc; using
defaults')
    Jeff> UserWarning: Could not find .matplotlibrc; using defaults


For some reason matplotlib is not finding its config file and is
falling back on the gtk backend, which is failing on your system.
Grab a copy of the rc file at http://matplotlib.sf.net/.matplotlibrc
and drop it in C:\Python24\share\matplotlib, and edit the backend
setting to a backend appropriate for your system, eg TkAgg or WXAgg.

JDH