Hi, I am trying to plot live data reading them from a txt file. The interesting thing is that it works fine without the animate function and I am not sure what is going on when I introduce this function. The code is appended below.
from datetime import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import matplotlib.animation as animation
from matplotlib import style
style.use('fivethirtyeight')
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1, axisbg = 'white')
#rect = fig.patch
def animate(i):
readFile = open ('CoolTerm Capture 2016-06-03 00-36-52.txt', 'r')
sepFile = readFile.read().split('\n')
xs=[]
ys=[]
for idx, plotPair in enumerate(sepFile):
if idx > 1:
xAndY = plotPair.split(',')
time_string = xAndY[0]
time_value = datetime.strptime(time_string, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print time_string
ax1.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
ax1.plot(xs, ys)
plt.title("PT100 temperature sensor")
plt.xlabel('TIME')
fig.autofmt_xdate(rotation=45)
ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, interval = 1000)
plt.show()
