如果要将图形显示为分类条形图,即独立于实际日期的等距条形图,可以重新格式化xticklabelsf = lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').strftime('%b')
ax.set_xticklabels([ f(x.get_text()) for x in ax.get_xticklabels()])
其中%b是月份的缩写,ax是绘图的轴。
完整示例:import pandas as pd
import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
df = pd.DataFrame(index = [datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 2, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2016, 8, 6, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2016, 9, 13, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2016, 10, 26, 0, 0),
datetime.datetime(2016, 11, 2, 0, 0)],
data = {'total' : [5, 3, 1, 0, 2]})
ax = df.plot(kind='bar')
f = lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').strftime('%b')
ax.set_xticklabels([ f(x.get_text()) for x in ax.get_xticklabels()])
plt.show()