: [Matplotlib-users] axvspan with dates on x-axis
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
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] axvspan with dates on x-axis
Luciano got in touch offline and my suggestions worked for a certain
version of Python.
Luciano, were you trying
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] axvspan with dates on x-axis
Looks like your very close.
I needed to change the months to short English form, change the line
ax3.grid('True
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
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
