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ENH: make interval_multiples work for years#9841

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@jklymak jklymak commented Nov 23, 2017 •
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PR Summary

If dates.AutoTickLocator was on the YEARLY frequency, it didn't respect the interval_multiples kwarg. This changes that by using the YearlyLocator if interval_multiples=True

(Of course I still think dateticks should be overhauled, but thats a bigger project)

Fixes #9838

import datetime
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = [datetime.datetime(1966, 1, 1),
     datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1)]

ticks = [datetime.datetime(i, 1, 1)
        for i in range(1970, 2020, 10)]

y = np.arange(len(x))
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot_date(x, y)
locator = mdates.AutoDateLocator(interval_multiples=True)
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)
plt.show()

PR Checklist

  • Has Pytest style unit tests
  • Code is PEP 8 compliant
  • New features are documented, with examples if plot related
  • Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant

@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the v2.2 milestone Nov 23, 2017
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tacaswell commented Nov 23, 2017

👍 in principle. Can you add a test (just setting it up and asking what the ticks are rather than an image test)? Might be worth a whats_new update, or just a callout in the some date-related documentation to make it discoverable.

@jklymak jklymak changed the title make interval_multiples work for years WIP. make interval_multiples work for years Nov 23, 2017
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jklymak commented Nov 23, 2017

@tacaswell I updated the doc at the top (which was out of date, BTW), and also will add to #9827 where I discuss DateLocators.

@jklymak jklymak changed the title WIP. make interval_multiples work for years ENH: make interval_multiples work for years Nov 23, 2017
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tacaswell commented Nov 23, 2017

There is trailing whitespace.

@dstansby dstansby merged commit 982254c into matplotlib:master Nov 25, 2017
has2k1 added a commit to has2k1/mizani that referenced this pull request Dec 2, 2017
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date_breaks with more variable spacings
e463375 
The restriction in the first place was trying to make up
for what was actually a bug in Matplotlib. It was fixed in
matplotlib/matplotlib#9841.
@QuLogic QuLogic modified the milestones: needs sorting, v2.2.0 Feb 12, 2018
@jklymak jklymak deleted the fix-years-autodate branch March 5, 2019 16:09
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YearLocator should prefer ticks at the turn of the decade

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