[Matplotlib-users] time axis format

[Sudheer J. <sud...@ya...>]

Dear Experts,
            I have been experimenting with the plot_dates option of matplotlib to plot time series data and have below questions

 I have used
loc = mdates.AutoDateLocator()
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(loc)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mpl.dates.DateFormatter('%b\n %Y'))


and got the tick labels in attached plot

However I feel the repeatd year labeling is not needed here and it is required once in a year only , Also if I need to plot long time seris insted of "MAR" "APR" I wanted to get them reduced to "M" "A" etc so that the lavel congestion can be avoided. 


I notice that below options are available, but was wondering how commbinatins of these locateors are used ie mark every month and every year once each.


Is there a way to achive the above or does it need further development?

fmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
loc = mdates.WeekdayLocator(byweekday=mdates.MONDAY,interval=4)
locator = mdates.YearLocator()


 with best regards,
Sudheer

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