Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot_date problem

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

>>>>> "Travis" == Travis Brady <td...@fa...> writes:

    Travis> Hi Everyone, I'm using plot_date to scatter a ton of data
    Travis> retrieved from a database and have encountered an error
    Travis> with the date ticks.

    Travis> I more or less copied the format of the example in
    Travis> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/date_demo2.py
    Travis> and my ticks ended up being months in order but never
    Travis> making it past the year 2001 (they just recycle) though my
    Travis> data begin in 2000 and end in 2004.

    Travis> I took another look at the plot generated by date_demo2.py
    Travis> and it turns out that the same is true there.

    Travis> I'm thinking this is not intentional, but if so does
    Travis> anyone have any advice or example scripts that might help
    Travis> me fix my plot?

That's because the format string is printing 'month day' and not
'month year' and the day is always 01 in the example.  You might want

monthsFmt = DateFormatter("%b '%y")

Hope this helps,
JDH