Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting date/value pairs

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Groszkowski <pgr...@ge...> writes:

    Peter> plot(date_in_some_format, data)

Are the dates strings, python datetime instances, mx datetime
instances, or what?

Here is a thread on python-list you may be interested in

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=mailman.766.1068941179.702.python-list%40python.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dmatplotlib%2Bdate%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch

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

Currently this is the best way.  It would not be too much work to
write a function called plotdate which took, for example, python2.3
datetime instances as the x arg, arbitrary y values, and a datetime
format string as an optional arg, and did all the conversions for you,
set the tick labels, etc...  If you want to do it, I think it would be
a nice addition to matplotlib.  

JDH