Matplotlib.dates.drange() in Python
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19 Apr, 2020
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matplotlib.dates.drange()
Thematplotlib.dates.drange()
function returns a sequence of equally spaced Matplotlib dates. The date range starts from 'dstart' and go up to, but not including 'dend'. The space between each date is called delta.
Syntax: matplotlib.dates.drange(dstart, dend, delta) Parameters:Example 1:Returns: It returns a numpy array which is a list of floats representing Matplotlib dates.
- dstart: Starting point of the date range and is a python's datetime date.
- dend: Ending point of the date range and is a python's datetime date.
- delta: It represents the spacing between each dates and belongs to python's datetime.timedelta.
import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.dates import DayLocator, HourLocator, DateFormatter, drange
import numpy as np
date_1 = datetime.datetime( 2020, 3, 2)
date_2 = datetime.datetime( 2020, 10, 10)
time_delta = datetime.timedelta(days = 28)
dates = drange(date_1, date_2, time_delta)
y_axis = np.arange( len(dates) )
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot_date(dates, y_axis * y_axis)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter( DateFormatter('% Y-% m') )
plt.show()

import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
date = [datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 24, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 23, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 22, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 21, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 18, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 17, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 16, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 15, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 14, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 11, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 10, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 9, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 8, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 7, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 4, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 3, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 2, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 1, 0, 0)]
# is a datetime.datetime object
# according to type
start_date = date[0]
# is a datetime.datetime object according
# to type
end_date = date[-1]
delta = datetime.timedelta(days = 5)
# the drange function
dates = mdates.drange(start_date, end_date, -delta)
y_data = range(len(dates))
plt.plot(dates, y_data)
