Re: [matplotlib-devel] AutoDateFormatter/AutoDateLocator

[Putting this back on devel]

> Have you checked scikits.timeseries.lib.plotlib ? We provide some functions
> that adapt the ticks to the frequency of you base series, but also according
> to the range of the axes. For example, if you work with a 100-y daily
> timeseries, you'll have major ticks every 5 years if you plot the whole
> series, every month if you plot or zoom on one year only, etc.
> it may be worthwhile to give it a try. I'd be happy to help adapting our
> code to remove the dependency on scikits.timeseries if needed...

No, I hadn't seen this.  And argh!, I wish I had *before* I had coded
up something that met my needs.  I hate to see a duplication of effort
and would love to see more of your matplotlib extensions moved into
matplotlib itself.  Having said that, I now have a patch that
accomplishes what I want and (now) keeps our unit tests passing. I've
also pretty much expended all the time I have for matplotlib
development in the short term.  So if one of the other devs is
interested, awesome.  But for me at this point, I can't go study yet
more code when I have something IMO ready to check in.

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma