Looks like your very close.
I needed to change the months to short English form, change the line
ax3.grid('True') to ax3.grid(True)
and add the line
ax3.axvspan(*mdates.datestr2num(['05/18/2012', '06/30/2012']),
facecolor='g', alpha=0.5)
To get the box on the lower plot.
Hope that helps,
On 23 July 2012 20:42, Luciano Fleischfresser <l_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to place a colored vertical range on my plot and came across the
> following example:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8270981/in-a-matplotlib-plot-can-i-highlight-specific-x-value-ranges/8271438#8271438
>
> It shows what I am trying to do using axvspan.
> However, I was not able to reproduce the second plot with dates.
> Errors like 'invalid syntax' for color='red' and others prevented me from
> reproducing the plot.
> The demo from Matplotlib gallery worked fine for me. My plot also has dates
> on the x-axis.
>
> I am attaching code and data file. Hope someone can point me in the right
> direction.
>
> L Fleischfresser
>
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