Date Time Plot Limits Bug

[ineteye]

Hi!

2.Is there any way to add margin or offset from plot sides?

THANKS!!!!

[piccolomo]

Using xlim() and ylim() functions (here). Those functions should accept string dates as well.

[ineteye]

Sorry can not make xlim to work, plot was based on this example code:

import yfinance as yf
import plotext as plt

plt.date_form('d/m/Y')
start = plt.string_to_datetime('11/04/2022')
end = plt.today_datetime()
data = yf.download('goog', start, end)

dates = plt.datetimes_to_string(data.index)

plt.xlim(-1)

plt.candlestick(dates, data)
plt.show()

• i was trying to use like :
  plt.xlim(-1),plt.xlim(-80) -- works but not how expected
  plt.xlim(-1,1) ,plt.xlim(-1,2) ..... ---- always get list index out of range
• len(dates)= 83

Can you please help, i want add padding 1 bar from left and right

[piccolomo]

Hi @ineteye,

thanks for the report as you were right, there was no date time support for the xlim() and ylim() functions. I just added it on the GitHub version 5.2.8 (instruction on how to install it here).

This now should work:

import yfinance as yf
import plotext as plt
plt.clf()
plt.date_form('d/m/Y')
start = plt.string_to_datetime('11/04/2022')
end = plt.today_datetime()
data = yf.download('goog', start, end)
dates = plt.datetimes_to_string(data.index)
plt.xlim("01/04/2022", "15/10/2022")
plt.candlestick(dates, data)
plt.show()

Does it help?

[ineteye]

Thanks!!! Will wait while it will be available on upgrade :)

Right now still 5.2.7

[piccolomo]

Try: pip install git+https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext for GitHub version 5.2.8 (as detailed here).

For all other aspects of this issue, feel free to reopen it. to make sure are not forgotten.

[ineteye]

Thanks again! Now works fine :)))

[piccolomo]

Hi @ineteye, I have cleaned this issue and moved sub requests to other issues for clarity in case some other users need to find it.

Thanks for reporting and any other report is very welcomed! :-)
Savino