[Matplotlib-devel] bar plot xtick limits with dates

[Isaac Gerg]

i eventually settled on set_xlim(tmp2.index[0], tmp2.index[-1])

Why would matplotlib go out as far as it did in the first place?

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

> 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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