Thank you very much, you are a lifesaver. I took your advice and found a working example on the internet http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Plotting_values_with_masked_arr ays (saves an image as png when run)
Made some minor modifications and it worked perfectly. Thank you very much. Joseph -----Original Message----- From: Richard Albright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:46 PM To: Rodrigues, Joseph Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] iregular data set You want to use matplotlib.numerix and use a masked array On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:24 -0400, Rodrigues, Joseph wrote: > I have a question (new user here): I have datasets of irregular time > spaced data and am having a problem with Matplot lib. > > > > I am plotting two datasets: one is continuous time series data (simple > line chart) and the other irregular time series data. > > > > The problem I have is: MatPlotLib is interpolating data for the > irregular data where there is no data. > > > > So if I have data from 1985 - 1989 then no data for 1990 - 1994, > matplotlib is drawing a line connecting the missing data. > > > > How does one plot irregular spaced time series data? > > Thanks > > Joseph > > > > p.s.: if this is the wrong forum, could you let me know where to post? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE V > _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Rick Albright Senior Quantitvative Analyst Indie Research, LLC 254 Witherspoon Street Princeton, NJ 08542 (609)497-1030 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users