On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oooh, this is almost what I want but I'm not really sure how I'd > incorporate this into real dates... > If I have a list of dates like ['2008-07-18 14:36:53.494013', > '2008-07-20 14:37:01.508990', '2008-07-28 14:49:26.183256'], how would > I convert it to a format that pylab can understand? When I tried > type(datetime.now()) it gave me datetime.datetime whereas the objects > in this list are strings...Am I doing something wrong here? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
To convert strings to date, you can use datetime.strptime but it doesn't seem to handle fractional seconds. I usually opt for the dateutil module [1]: import dateutil, pylab datestrings = ['2008-07-18 14:36:53.494013','2008-07-20 14:37:01.508990', '2008-07-28 14:49:26.183256'] dates = [dateutil.parser.parse(s) for s in datestrings] pylab.plot_date(pylab.date2num(dates), values, linestyle='-') where values is the list of corresponding y-values. [1] http://labix.org/python-dateutil
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