[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib locale (language) settings: how to change default ? (e.g. in plot_date labels)

[Clément M. <cm...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I would like to know how to set locale settings for matplotlib.
When I use the plot_date function, labels are in french (my system's
default locale). I would like english. I tried to set locale and it works
ok with strftime :

import locale
print(locale.getlocale())
('fr_FR', 'UTF-8')
mydate=dates.datetime.date(1950,1,15)
mydate.strftime('%A %d %B %Y')
Out[19]: 'dimanche 15 janvier 1950'


locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'en_US')
Out[21]: 'en_US'
mydate.strftime('%A %d %B %Y')
Out[22]: 'Sunday 15 January 1950'


But this has no effect on the plot_date results...

In my mpl.rcParams, 'axes.formatter.use_locale' is set to False.

How can I set locale configuration for matplotlib ?

Any advice welcome !

Thank you !

Clement