[Matplotlib-devel] bar plot xtick limits with dates

[Isaac Gerg]

A simple string with the date in it as listed on the x-axis in the image
worked -- thank you!

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

> No. Do I use a string with it?
>
> Sent from my Android.
>
> 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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