import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
import datetime as DT
dates = mdates.num2date(mdates.drange(DT.datetime(2012, 11, 30),
DT.datetime(2012, 12, 4),
DT.timedelta(days=1)))
print(dates)
# [datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 30, 0, 0, tzinfo=), datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=), datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 2, 0, 0, tzinfo=), datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 3, 0, 0, tzinfo=)]
vals = np.random.randint(10, size=len(dates))
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.bar(dates, vals, align='center')
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
plt.xticks(rotation=25)
ax.set_xticks(dates)
plt.show()