[Matplotlib-users] plotting date/value pairs

[Peter G. <pgr...@ge...>]

Hi everyone:

I am interested in plotting data in the form:

2004/01/29 15:29:17.161621101   5
2004/01/29 15:29:18.161621061   6
2004/01/29 15:29:19.161621021   7
2004/01/29 15:29:20.161620981   8
2004/01/29 15:29:21.161620941   9
2004/01/29 15:29:22.161620901   0
2004/01/29 15:29:23.161620861   1
...

In some cases I will have data every second, other times every minute or 
hour.. and so on..

Ideally I would like the x-axis of my plots to show the time/dates as 
the units. Is this currently possible with matplotlib? So in other words 
could I call on:

plot(date_in_some_format, data)

I suppose an alternative would be to convert the times to say seconds, 
create a plot and manually add the actual date/time label (text). This 
would be tedious but doable.

Thanks.

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