Re: [Matplotlib-users] View datetime corresponding to x coordinate of cursor

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:23 AM, William Furnass <wi...@th...>wrote:

> Several backends will show you the x and y float values that
> correspond to the current cursor position in a plot() but are there
> backends that show the _datetime_ corresponding to the x position if
> the plotted data is a time series (e.g. a pandas.Series object with a
> DatetimeIndex)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Will
>

Will,

You can use the `format_coord` method of the axes objects to do just this.
-paul