C M wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to mpl and want to learn date plotting. Would like to start
> with the demo, but date_demo1 won't run for me. (My specs: winXP,
> Python 2.5, matplotlib 0.9.0, numpy 1.0, and yes was connected to the
> internet when I ran it). I just copied into IDLE and saved it and got
> this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/datedemo.py", line 22, in
> <module>
> quotes = quotes_historical_yahoo('INTC', date1, date2)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\finance.py", line 153,
> in quotes_historical_yahoo
> try: ret = parse_yahoo_historical(fh, asobject, adjusted)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\finance.py", line 53,
> in parse_yahoo_historical
> dt = datetime.date(*time.strptime(datestr, '%d-%b-%y')[:3])
> File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 310, in strptime
> (data_string, format))
> ValueError: time data did not match format: data=2003-12-01 fmt=%d-%b-%y
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong. I noticed the bug recently also. I
don't know when or why it started. It is not python 2.5-specific; I see
it while running 2.4 and svn mpl.
Thanks for reporting it.
Eric
>
> Thanks,
> Che
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