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

years = mdates.YearLocator()   # every year
months = mdates.MonthLocator()  # every month
yearsFmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%Y')

# load a numpy record array from yahoo csv data with fields date,
# open, close, volume, adj_close from the mpl-data/example directory.
# The record array stores python datetime.date as an object array in
# the date column
datafile = cbook.get_sample_data('goog.npy')
try:
    # Python3 cannot load python2 .npy files with datetime(object) arrays
    # unless the encoding is set to bytes. Hovever this option was
    # not added until numpy 1.10 so this example will only work with
    # python 2 or with numpy 1.10 and later.
    r = np.load(datafile, encoding='bytes').view(np.recarray)
except TypeError:
    r = np.load(datafile).view(np.recarray)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(r.date, r.adj_close)


# format the ticks
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(years)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(yearsFmt)
ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(months)

datemin = datetime.date(r.date.min().year, 1, 1)
datemax = datetime.date(r.date.max().year + 1, 1, 1)
ax.set_xlim(datemin, datemax)


# format the coords message box
def price(x):
    return '$%1.2f' % x
ax.format_xdata = mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
ax.format_ydata = price
ax.grid(True)

# rotates and right aligns the x labels, and moves the bottom of the
# axes up to make room for them
fig.autofmt_xdate()

plt.show()


    

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