.. _pylab_examples-loadrec: pylab_examples example code: loadrec.py ======================================= .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/other_source/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/loadrec.py :: from __future__ import print_function from matplotlib import mlab from pylab import figure, show import matplotlib.cbook as cbook datafile = cbook.get_sample_data('msft.csv', asfileobj=False) print('loading', datafile) a = mlab.csv2rec(datafile) a.sort() print(a.dtype) fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.plot(a.date, a.adj_close, '-') fig.autofmt_xdate() # if you have xlwt installed, you can output excel try: import mpl_toolkits.exceltools as exceltools exceltools.rec2excel(a, 'test.xls') except ImportError: pass show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)