On Jul 19, 3:09 pm, Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot a simple graph against date or time using matplotlib. I've > read about date_plot but I'm not really sure how to use it. At the moment, I > have some data arranged into lists, where list1 contains x values (time) and > list2 contains y values just like is needed for the normal plot function. The > time values are simply the output of datetime.date.today(), etc which I don't > mind changing the format of. > > My question is, how do I plot the graph with list1 on the x axis and list2 on > the y axis. Using plot and unixtime I get a very ugly scale as is to be > expected so I want to know how to use the date_plot function efficiently. At > the moment, I'm only concerned about the actual plotting but help with > Locater Ticks (Months and Years) is also very appreciated. > > Thanks a lot!
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here's a quick sample that uses plot_date to plot some random values. import pylab, random from datetime import datetime, timedelta today = datetime.now() dates = [today + timedelta(days=i) for i in range(10)] values = [random.randint(1, 20) for i in range(10)] pylab.plot_date(pylab.date2num(dates), values, linestyle='-') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
