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Support datetime types in region argument #561

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@weiji14

Description of the desired feature

Support passing in 'datetime' like inputs into the 'region' or '-R' argument in plot.

  • The region argument doesn't work with numpy datetime64 objects, have to convert to a string using np.datetime_as_string in order to set the map frame bounds.

The decorator kwargs_to_strings convert the list [w, e, s, n] to a string w/e/s/n. We need to convert datetime64 object to string internally, but it's not ideal to do the conversion in the decorator. I don't have a good solution now.

Originally posted by @seisman in #464 (comment)

Minimal working example:

importpandasaspdimportpygmtfig=pygmt.Figure()
fig.plot(x=["2020-06-30"], y=[1], region=[pd.Timestamp("2020-01-01"), pd.Timestamp("2020-12-31"), 0, 2])
fig.show()

The error message is:

GMTCLibError: Module 'plot' failed with status code 71:
plot [ERROR]: Option -R parsing failure. Correct syntax:
plot [ERROR]: Offending option -R2020-01-01

This workaround does work, but it's cumbersome:

fig=pygmt.Figure()
fig.plot(
x=[pd.Timestamp("2020-06-30")],
y=[1],
region=[
pd.Timestamp("2020-01-01").isoformat(),
pd.Timestamp("2020-12-31").isoformat(),
0,
2,
],
style="a10c",
frame=True,
)
fig.show()

produces:

Expected plot with star in middle

Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Yes, but where should this code logic go?

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