Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot duration given format of '3:04:02.994000'

2011-07-18 Thread Daniel Mader 
Hi,

why don't you just parse the returned string?

asdf = '3:04:02.994000'
asdf = asdf.split(':')
temp = asdf[-1].split('.')
print asdf
asdf.pop(-1)
print asdf
asdf.extend(temp)
print asdf
asdf = [int(i) for i in asdf]
print asdf
hrs,mins,secs,usecs = asdf

That should work, and you can always transform this into some common
unit, e.g. seconds etc.

Hope it helps,
Daniel

2011/7/17 C M cmpyt...@gmail.com:
 This a time duration in my database:  '3:04:02.994000' (i.e., 3 hrs, 4
 min, 2 sec and 994 microsec).  It's a string.

 Is there a way to allow Matplotlib to interpret that directly as a
 duration of time?

 Thank you.

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot duration given format of '3:04:02.994000'

2011-07-18 Thread C M 
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Mader
danielstefanma...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 why don't you just parse the returned string?

 asdf = '3:04:02.994000'
 asdf = asdf.split(':')
 temp = asdf[-1].split('.')
 print asdf
 asdf.pop(-1)
 print asdf
 asdf.extend(temp)
 print asdf
 asdf = [int(i) for i in asdf]
 print asdf
 hrs,mins,secs,usecs = asdf

 That should work, and you can always transform this into some common
 unit, e.g. seconds etc.

Thanks.  The issue, though is that I don't want to display a graph
with seconds, but with whatever units is most suitable, since my data
is going to range from seconds to hours.  If most datapoints are
hours, I don't want things expressed in terms of 5000 seconds.

I thought there might be a way to use a DateLocator or DateFormatter
with this kind of data so that it could pick the most suitable units
based on a standardized time duration string.

So do people think I have to create my own custom locator or formatter
to do this?

Thanks,
Che

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[Matplotlib-users] plot duration given format of '3:04:02.994000'

2011-07-16 Thread C M 
This a time duration in my database:  '3:04:02.994000' (i.e., 3 hrs, 4
min, 2 sec and 994 microsec).  It's a string.

Is there a way to allow Matplotlib to interpret that directly as a
duration of time?

Thank you.

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