[Matplotlib-devel] bar plot xtick limits with dates

[Isaac Gerg]

No. Do I use a string with it?

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On May 1, 2017 2:50 PM, "Klymak Jody" <jklymak at uvic.ca> wrote:

> Did you try ax.set_xlim after your tick locator calls?
>
> Cheers.   Jody.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 1, 2017, at 11:29, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to make a plot from a pandas dataframe and i cannot for the
> life of me get the xlabels to stay within range of the data.  Any
> suggestions?
> >
> > attached is the plot in question.  The code is:
> >
> > plt.figure()
> > fig = matplotlib.pyplot.gcf()
> > fig.set_size_inches(16,9)
> > plt.title('Number Abnormal Events Per Week By Type')
> > plt.bar(tmp2.index, tmp2['loose'], color='C1', width=4)
> > plt.bar(tmp2.index, tmp2['hard'], color='C2', width=4,
> bottom=tmp2['loose'])
> > plt.ylabel('Count')
> > plt.xlabel('Week')
> > plt.legend(['l','h'])
> > plt.xticks(rotation='vertical')
> > ax = matplotlib.pyplot.gca()
> > ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(matplotlib.dates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
> > ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.WeekdayLocator(byweekday=mdates.MO))
> > plt.savefig(r'output\abnormal.png',  bbox='tight')
> >
> > with
> >
> > tmp2.index
> > DatetimeIndex(['2017-01-02', '2017-01-09', '2017-01-16', '2017-01-23',
> >                '2017-01-30', '2017-02-06', '2017-02-13', '2017-02-20',
> >                '2017-02-27', '2017-03-06', '2017-03-13', '2017-03-20',
> >                '2017-03-27', '2017-04-03', '2017-04-10', '2017-04-17',
> >                '2017-04-24'],
> >               dtype='datetime64[ns]', name='datetime', freq='W-MON')
> >
> >
> > I would like to remove the xlabels on either end of the data (12-26 and
> 05-01).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Isaac
> > <abnormal.png>
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