I realize that the clearer question (and one which ties into my original
thread) is: do I need pylab to do plot_date()?
On 9/4/07, C M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mark, Mark, Brendan, John, thanks for the input. I have a related
> question that may help to continue to clear things up for me. My goal is to
> use matplotlib with wxPython, and I've been able to embed graphs in wxPython
> apps fine so far (in this case, directly, not using wxMPL). What I wanted
> to know is whether it is necessary to use pylab or not. I am a little
> unclear what the purpose of pylab is in distinction to matplotlib itself. I
> gather that pylab is a way to sort of emulate Matlab, but I am unclear as to
> whether I need to be using pylab in my apps or not. I am not doing
> scientific plots, just fairly simple graphs, though I may throw some
> regression lines and r values on there at some point.
>
> I really just want to keep things as simple as possible, and if I don't
> need to use pylab, I'd rather not. Any insight would be helpful. Thank
> you.
> Che M
>
> On 9/4/07, Mark Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe this will get you going:
> >
> > import pylab as p
> > import datetime as d
> > from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter
> > t = [ d.datetime (2007,9,1,12), d.datetime(2007,9,2,12),
> > d.datetime(2007,9,3,12)
> > ]
> > t = p.date2num(t)
> > p.plot_date( t, [10,20,30] )
> > p.xticks(t)
> > y = DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
> > p.gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(y)
> > p.draw()
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > From: "C M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: [Matplotlib-users] basic understanding of plotting dates
> > >
> > > x = (2007-09-01 12:00:02, 2007-09-02 12:00:02, 2007-09-03 12:00:02)
> > > y = (10, 20, 30)
> > >
> >
> >
>
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