.. _pylab_examples-load_converter:

pylab_examples example code: load_converter.py
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.. plot:: /build/buildd/matplotlib-0.98.5.2/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py

::

    from matplotlib.dates import strpdate2num
    from matplotlib.mlab import load
    from pylab import figure, show
    
    dates, closes = load(
        '../data/msft.csv', 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()
    

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