Then convert them to date objects? Also, I am guessing that the length of indices.index is not the same as indices.carli, which could also be the reason for a ValueError. So you would need to use whatever pandas variable that indices.index derived from.
Ben Root On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ted To <rainexpec...@theo.to> wrote: > Unless I recall incorrectly, I think I am using set_xticklabels because > indices.index are strings. When I tried specifying > ax.plot(indices.index,indices.carli) I get a ValueError. > > Ted > > > On 2015-06-17 10:28 am, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> Why are you calling ax.set_xticklabels()?. Why not pass the x values >> to ax.plot() along with the y values? Then you won't need to set the >> labels because matplotlib will do it for you. >> >> Ben Root >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Ted To <rainexpec...@theo.to> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having a strange problem and I don't understand why this is >>> happening. I am plotting the dataframe in: >>> http://pastebin.com/C0Pt0iYd [1] >>> but I'm getting too few tick marks. My code for the plot is: >>> >>> fig, ax = plt.subplots() >>> plt.rc('text', usetex=True) >>> fig.autofmt_xdate() >>> ax.plot(indices.carli,'b-',label=r'textsf{Carli}') >>> ax.plot(indices.geomean,'g-',label=r'textsf{GeoMean}') >>> ax.plot(indices.laspeyres,'c-',label=r'textsf{Laspeyres}') >>> ax.plot(indices.paasche,'m-',label=r'textsf{Paasche}') >>> ax.plot(indices.tornqvist,'y-',label=r'textsf{T"ornqvist}') >>> plt.xlabel(r'textsf{Month}') >>> plt.ylabel(r'textsf{Index value}') >>> ax.set_xticklabels(indices.index) >>> >>> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ted >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-users mailing list >>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users [2] >>> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://pastebin.com/C0Pt0iYd >> [2] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >
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