Unless I recall incorrectly, I think I am using set_xticklabels because indices.index are strings. When I tried specifying ax.plot(indices.index,indices.carli) I get a ValueError.
Ted On 2015-06-17 10:28 am, Benjamin Root wrote: > Why are you calling ax.set_xticklabels()?. Why not pass the x values > to ax.plot() along with the y values? Then you won't need to set the > labels because matplotlib will do it for you. > > Ben Root > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Ted To <rainexpec...@theo.to> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm having a strange problem and I don't understand why this is >> happening. I am plotting the dataframe in: >> http://pastebin.com/C0Pt0iYd [1] >> but I'm getting too few tick marks. My code for the plot is: >> >> fig, ax = plt.subplots() >> plt.rc('text', usetex=True) >> fig.autofmt_xdate() >> ax.plot(indices.carli,'b-',label=r'textsf{Carli}') >> ax.plot(indices.geomean,'g-',label=r'textsf{GeoMean}') >> ax.plot(indices.laspeyres,'c-',label=r'textsf{Laspeyres}') >> ax.plot(indices.paasche,'m-',label=r'textsf{Paasche}') >> ax.plot(indices.tornqvist,'y-',label=r'textsf{T"ornqvist}') >> plt.xlabel(r'textsf{Month}') >> plt.ylabel(r'textsf{Index value}') >> ax.set_xticklabels(indices.index) >> >> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Ted >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users [2] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://pastebin.com/C0Pt0iYd > [2] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
