On 01/04/2013 14:48, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 29/03/2013 15:49, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> From http://labix.org/python-dateutil >> >> "To generate a rrule for the use case of "a date on the specified day of >> the month, unless it is beyond the end of month, in which case it will >> be the last day of the month" use the following: >> >> rrule(MONTHLY, bymonthday=(some_day, -1), bysetpos=1) >> >> This will generate a value for every calendar month regardless of the >> day of the month it is started from." >> >> Using bymonthday with MonthLocator gives ticks on the day given and the >> last day of the month, which looks extremely ugly. Code below demonstrates. >> >> from dateutil.rrule import * >> import datetime >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> from matplotlib.ticker import FormatStrFormatter, MultipleLocator >> from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter, MonthLocator, DayLocator >> >> start = datetime.date(2013, 3, 29) >> until = datetime.date(2014, 3, 29) >> dates = rrule(MONTHLY, bymonthday=(29, -1), bysetpos=1, until=until) >> for d in dates:print(d) >> >> dates = [start, until] >> values = [0, 1] >> plt.ylabel('Balance') >> plt.grid() >> ax = plt.subplot(111) >> plt.plot_date(dates, values, fmt = 'rx-') >> ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MonthLocator(bymonthday = (dates[0].day, -1))) >> ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%d/%m/%y')) >> ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('£%0.2f')) >> ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(5)) >> plt.axis(xmin=dates[0], xmax=dates[-1]) >> plt.setp(plt.gca().get_xticklabels(), rotation = 45, fontsize = 10) >> plt.setp(plt.gca().get_yticklabels(), fontsize = 10) >> plt.show() >> > > Seems an apt date to realise that I didn't say much :( > > Assuming that I'm correct would you like an issue raised on the bug > tracker? If not please correct the mistake I've made, presumably in > reading the docs, which I think are excellent by the way. >
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