According to http://matplotlib.org/1.4.3/api/cbook_api.html#matplotlib.cbook.get_sample_data, msft.csv should be located at the mpl-data/sample_data directory.
In that case, save the following as sample.csv on the current directory: event_start_time, event_duration, frequency_value, voice 0.0, 2.5, 60, 1 2.0, 1.5, 62, 4 4.0, 5.0, 64, 2 6.0, 3.5, 65, 3 8.0, 1.5, 67, 1 10.0, 2.0, 69, 4 12.0, 5.5, 71, 3 14.0, 3.0, 70, 2 16.0, 2.0, 72, 1 18.0, 1.0, 74, 4 20.0, 0.5, 75, 3 22.0, 1.5, 77, 2 24.0, 0.5, 79, 1 Then run the following code: from pylab import plotfile, show, gca #test 5; single subplot plotfile('sample.csv', ('event_start_time', 'event_duration', 'frequency_value', 'voice'), subplots=False) show() Regards, Christian On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Kevin Parks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > That doesn’t work. Just having my own msft.csv file in my directory doesn't > change anything as it is still pointing to some other msft.csv someplace on > my computron. (what and where is this file?) > > I also have never opened a file this way. I had prevously just used something > like: > > for l in open(filename).readlines(): > l = l.strip().split() > data.append([float(l[0]), float(l[1]), float(l[2]), int(l[3])]) > > values = [1,2,3,4] > > - > > I think ithis is just some example file that gets installed some place so > that the examples work? > > What does asfileobj=False do? > > Goodness the whole world of Python has radically changed in the short time I > have been out of the game. > > > >> On Aug 15, 2015, at 1:50 AM, Christian Alis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The sample code reads data from msft.csv. If you enter your data into >> a text editor and save it as msft.csv in python's current working >> directory, then the following minimal code (pruned from plotfile_demo) >> should work: >> >> from pylab import plotfile, show, gca >> import matplotlib.cbook as cbook >> >> fname = cbook.get_sample_data('msft.csv', asfileobj=False) >> >> #test 5; single subplot >> plotfile(fname, ('date', 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close'), subplots=False) >> >> show() >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users