Feature Request: plot directly datetime objects

[realSAH]

I'm plotting with x axis being datetime object and got this pandas error:

File ~\venvs\ve\lib\site-packages\plotext\_monitor.py:412, in <listcomp>(.0)
    410 xlabels = x if x_string else map(str, x)
    411 x = xticks if x_string else x
--> 412 x = [el + offset for el in x]
    413 xbar, ybar = ut.bars(x, y, width, minimum)
    414 xbar, ybar = [xbar, ybar]  if orientation[0] == 'v' else [ybar, xbar]

File ~\venvs\ve\lib\site-packages\pandas\_libs\tslibs\timestamps.pyx:296, in pandas._libs.tslibs.timestamps._Timestamp.__add__()

TypeError: Addition/subtraction of integers and integer-arrays with Timestamp is no longer supported.  Instead of adding/subtracting `n`, use `n * obj.freq`

[piccolomo]

Hi @southaustralia,

thanks for reporting. Try to pass date/time strings instead using the datetime_to_string() or datetimes_to_string() methods. Does it work?

plotext does not allow datetime object directly in the plotting functions for now. Which makes me think, that it could probably be a good added feature. If you think it could, we could rename this issue as a Feature Request about it.

thanks, Savino

[realSAH]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I was forced to do this df['date'].apply(lambda x: x.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")) Anything other than literally this will cause an error saying ValueError: Date Form should be: %d/%m/%Y

My datetime column happen to be in hours range while the year, month and day don't change, so even thought the API accepted my syntax the plot wasn't correct.

I think supporting datetime object out of the box will implicitly solve the problem. Thank you for your time.

[piccolomo]

Hi @southaustralia,

this is something I could definitively work on. In the mean time here is a guide to deal with date/time plots for now: basically one needs to specify the datetime form with date_form() and convert to string with datetime_to_string() or datetimes_to_string() methods, and pass the string to the plot (instead of the datetime objects for now).

If the guide is not clear, some feedback is appreciated to improve it.

Thanks, Savino

[piccolomo]

Just to update and apologise: I have been quite busy rewriting the package from ground up and will update.