pandas scatter plotting datetime

Question

I have a dataframe with two columns of datetime.time\'s. I\'d like to scatter plot them. I\'d also like the axes to display the times, ideally. But

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Answer 1

Not an answer, but I can't edit the question or put this much in a comment, I think.

Here is a reproducible example:

from datetime import datetime
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'x': [datetime.now() for _ in range(10)], 'y': range(10)})
df.plot(x='x', y='y', kind='scatter')

This gives KeyError: 'x'.

Interestingly, you do get a plot with just df.plot(x='x', y='y'); it chooses poorly for the default x range because the times are just nanoseconds apart, which is weird, but that's a separate issue. It seems like if you can make a line graph, you should be able to make a scatterplot too.

There is a pandas github issue about this problem, but it was closed for some reason. I'm going to go comment there and see if we can re-start that conversation.

Is there some clever work-around for this? If so, what?