Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread John Hunter
> "Marquardt," == Marquardt, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> Also, you are using some parameters (usecols, unpack) to Colin> load() that Colin> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-load Colin> doesn't know about. The web page is a bit out of date

Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread Marquardt, Colin
Title: Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The function datestr2num takes any date string recognized by > dateutils.parse (most of them) and returns a floating point number > days since -00-00 which is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread Marquardt, Colin
Title: Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user Bill Dandreta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a code snippet I found somewhere that demonstrates the use: Thanks Jonathan and Bill, that works fine. Cheers,   Colin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread John Hunter
> "Marquardt," == Marquardt, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> * My data file consists of a date (in ISO format) and Colin> integers. Parsing the date was a bit of work. I Colin> understand that python's datetime doesn't provide any Colin> parsing of dates - but maybe m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Dandreta
Here's a code snippet I found somewhere that demonstrates the use: def make_datetime(s, fmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'): '''convert string to datetime''' ts = time.mktime(time.strptime(s, fmt)) return datetime.fromtimestamp(ts) Warning, this is very slow, if you need to do a lot of conversions

Re: [Matplotlib-users] First impression from a new user

2006-06-01 Thread Jonathan Taylor
You can use python's time module to parse dates, see time.strptime and time.strftime. Jonathan Marquardt, Colin wrote: [Repost, sorry if you get this twice.] Hi guys, in my quest for a better gnuplot replacement, I came across matplotlib yesterday. I really like it, big thanks to the devel