Hi JDH, Thanks for looking into this -- it has been driving me crazy! I tried running your much better code but ended up with the same result: http://screencast.com/t/UMl6l0Y4
I checked and matplotlib is version 0.98.5.2, and your code doesn't using dateutil so I guess that's not it. Any other ideas? I can't think of what else to try... Thanks again, Tyler On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Tyler B <bosm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And yet here is the result: http://screencast.com/t/gLPDFtwnJM4 >> >> I can't figure out why the values are 'grouping' around particular values >> on the x-axis... I would expect it to look more like a function, with only >> one y-value for each x. > > I am not seeing the problem when I run your script with your datafile (there > is no grouping in columns like you have; instead I get a distinct x for each > date). I wonder if you have an old dateutil or an old matplotlib. > > With recent matplotlib, you can do with less code:: > > import matplotlib.cbook as cbook > import matplotlib.mlab as mlab > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > r = mlab.csv2rec('gmail-count.txt', names='date,val1,val2', > converterd={'date' : cbook.todatetime('%Y-%m-%d > %H:%M:%S')}) > fig = plt.figure() > ax = fig.add_subplot(111) > ax.plot(r.date, r.val1, 'g^') > fig.autofmt_xdate () > plt.show() > > > JDH > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
