Example Python program foo (1).py

Modules

• set matplotlib backend (before actually importing matplotlib)

• import matplotlib
• import pandas as pd
• import numpy as np
• import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Code

Python example

# see https://matplotlib.org/users/pgf.html

# set matplotlib backend (before actually importing matplotlib)
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('pgf')
pgf_with_rc_fonts = {
    "font.family": "serif",
    "font.serif": [],                    # use latex default serif font
    "font.sans-serif": ["DejaVu Sans"],  # use a specific sans-serif font
    "text.usetex": True,
    "pgf.rcfonts": False,
}
matplotlib.rcParams.update(pgf_with_rc_fonts)

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# generate data
test_seq = np.array([0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1])
pred_seq = np.array([0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1])
index = pd.DatetimeIndex(start='2017-08-12 06:00:00', freq='10min', periods=test_seq.shape[0])
df = pd.DataFrame(data={'test': test_seq, 'pred': pred_seq}, index=index)

# create figure
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
df.plot(ax=ax, drawstyle="steps-post")
ax.axes.yaxis.set_ticks([i for i in range(df.max().max()+1)]);
ax.axes.set_xlabel('Time')
ax.axes.set_ylabel('Occupied charging stations')

# save figure
fig.savefig('foo.pgf')

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