Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Hm. thanks for the info. But it's not perfect... I get times in my formats, but not the dates. Here is the sample code: #!/usr/bin/python # # Example boxplot code # from pylab import * from matplotlib.dates import MonthLocator, WeekdayLocator, DateFormatter from matplotlib.dates import MONDAY

Re: [Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-15 Thread Pierre GM
> 2. I need to have the X axis of the boxplot be dates. There doesn't > seem to be an easy way to do that. Use the "position" keyword, as a list of date ordinals (output of date2num). Then, use gca().xaxis_date(tz) where tz is your current timezone (you can use None, that's easier). Et voi

[Matplotlib-users] boxplot

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
I've discovered that matplotlib does boxplots, and apparently this is what I should be using for one of the big graphs in my paper. Two problems: 1. I need to put 45 boxplots on a single date plot. Each of the boxes has a different amount of data that goes in it. Since the boxplot()

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Horizontal grid lines?

2006-12-15 Thread Simson Garfinkel
Looks like I need to read *all* of the docstrings. I wish there was an easy way to search them On Dec 15, 2006, at 2:49 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> HI. I wand to have just horizontal grid lines. Is there any way to >> do this? Thanks! > > gca().yaxis.grid(True) >