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Printing dates as dates in scatter plot

Asked by Detlef Koschny

I would like to plot the elevation of the Moon (or anything else, as a matter of fact) using a scatter plot of the Mathplotlib library which I get when importing 'pylab'. But all I manage is to plot the float value of the date - which doesn't look nice. Any idea how I can convert the date back to the string? I tried 'str (date)' but then I get an error of the 'scatter' function saying that x and y must be of the same size...

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Brandon Rhodes (brandon-rhodes) said : 		#1

Calling the method n.datetime() returns a Python standard "datetime" object, which I think matplotlib should be willing to use in a graph.

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