.. _pylab_examples-load_converter: pylab_examples example code: load_converter.py ============================================== .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py :: from __future__ import print_function from matplotlib.dates import strpdate2num #from matplotlib.mlab import load import numpy as np from pylab import figure, show import matplotlib.cbook as cbook datafile = cbook.get_sample_data('msft.csv', asfileobj=False) print('loading', datafile) dates, closes = np.loadtxt( datafile, delimiter=',', converters={0:strpdate2num('%d-%b-%y')}, skiprows=1, usecols=(0,2), unpack=True) fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot_date(dates, closes, '-') fig.autofmt_xdate() show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)