Re: [Matplotlib-users] xticks not lining up with data

[Ted To <rai...@th...>]

Unless I recall incorrectly, I think I am using set_xticklabels because 
indices.index are strings.  When I tried specifying 
ax.plot(indices.index,indices.carli) I get a ValueError.

Ted


On 2015-06-17 10:28 am, Benjamin Root wrote:
> Why are you calling ax.set_xticklabels()?. Why not pass the x values
> to ax.plot() along with the y values? Then you won't need to set the
> labels because matplotlib will do it for you.
> 
> Ben Root
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Ted To <rai...@th...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm having a strange problem and I don't understand why this is
>> happening. I am plotting the dataframe in:
>> http://pastebin.com/C0Pt0iYd [1]
>> but I'm getting too few tick marks. My code for the plot is:
>> 
>> fig, ax = plt.subplots()
>> plt.rc('text', usetex=True)
>> fig.autofmt_xdate()
>> ax.plot(indices.carli,'b-',label=r'textsf{Carli}')
>> ax.plot(indices.geomean,'g-',label=r'textsf{GeoMean}')
>> ax.plot(indices.laspeyres,'c-',label=r'textsf{Laspeyres}')
>> ax.plot(indices.paasche,'m-',label=r'textsf{Paasche}')
>> ax.plot(indices.tornqvist,'y-',label=r'textsf{T"ornqvist}')
>> plt.xlabel(r'textsf{Month}')
>> plt.ylabel(r'textsf{Index value}')
>> ax.set_xticklabels(indices.index)
>> 
>> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ted
>> 
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