On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 00:22, Andrew Romero <romero...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The script plottest.py.txt reads the data file (out.txt) and creates the plot > (myfig.png); however, > I am unable to format the dates ... they always print as floats .. help
are those unix timestamps (from 1970-01-01)? In any case, you have to convert those in datetime objects, then dates = list of datetime objects mpl_dates = [matplotlib.dates.date2num(date) for date in dates] and at the and use plot_date() instead of plot(), using mpl_dates for X axis. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users