On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:25 PM, John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Simson" == Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Simson> Greetings. I've been having lots of luck with my date
> Simson> plots. But I've been having a problem getting the
> Simson> dateformatter to work. I'm using the code below. The dates
> Simson> keep getting formatted with the default, "Sep 28 2006"
> Simson> instead of what I want, "Sep 28"
>
> This is an order of opertations problem. The call to "plot_date" sets
> the DateFormatter, overriding your choices. You need to set your
> custom formatter after the call to plot_date:
That's odd. I would think that it makes more sense to set the format
*before* the data is plot, not after.
>
>
> ax.plot_date(dates, vals, 'bo')
> ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%b %d'))
> ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('%3.0f KBps'))
>
> This is an annoyance that we can fix by setting the date formatter
> only if the current formatter is *not* a date formatter instance.
Probably a good thing for people like me who have never used Matlab.
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