simple dateplotter

dateplotter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import division
import sys, dateutil
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

def main(sep='\t'):
    dates, vals = [], []
    for line in sys.stdin:
        try:
            datestring, valstring = line.strip().split(sep)
            print datestring
            date = dateutil.parser.parse(datestring,fuzzy=True)
            val = float(valstring)
        except:
            continue
        dates.append(date)
        vals.append(val)

    plt.plot_date(dates,vals)
    plt.show()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(*sys.argv[1:])

theurl='http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Output.aspx?rel=H15&series=96daf78ac9574dadeda684107ee57f34&lastObs=&from=&to=&filetype=csv&label=include&layout=seriescolumn'

curl -s "$theurl" | tail -n 300 | sed 's/,/ /' | dateplotter.py