Matplotlib 1.2.0, Windows Vista, Python 3.3.0. I want the first major
xtick label aligned with the first date that's plotted. This never
happens with the value of day below set in the range zero to six. The
first major tick label actually occurs as follows.
Day Label date
0 25/03/2013
1 02/04/2013
2 10/04/2013
3 21/03/2013
4 29/03/2013
5 06/04/2013
6 17/03/2013
What am I doing wrong?
If day is set to seven then no xticks are displayed but labels for
14/03/2013 and 13/03/2014 are displayed. I expected a ValueError or
similar using this number. Could you explain this behaviour please?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.ticker import FormatStrFormatter, MultipleLocator
from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter, WeekdayLocator
import datetime
dates = [datetime.date(2013, 3, 14), datetime.date(2014, 3, 13)]
values = [0, 1]
plt.ylabel('Balance')
plt.grid()
ax = plt.subplot(111)
plt.plot_date(dates, values, fmt = 'rx-')
plt.axis(xmin=dates[0], xmax=dates[-1])
day = ?
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(WeekdayLocator(byweekday=day, interval=4))
ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(WeekdayLocator(byweekday=day))
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%d/%m/%y'))
ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('£%0.2f'))
ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(5))
plt.setp(plt.gca().get_xticklabels(), rotation = 45, fontsize = 10)
plt.setp(plt.gca().get_yticklabels(), fontsize = 10)
plt.show()
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Mark Lawrence
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