From 0104905110cbb8c08e77d5c7372f66b2086ae60f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:35:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a locator to AutoDateFormatters example code

AutoDateFormatter.__init__ always needs a locator, so add one to the
example in the documentation.
---
 lib/matplotlib/dates.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
index fbd0bf480cda..d2b24e43d6c1 100755
--- a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
@@ -642,7 +642,8 @@ class AutoDateFormatter(ticker.Formatter):
     dictionary by doing::
 
 
-    >>> formatter = AutoDateFormatter()
+    >>> locator = AutoDateLocator()
+    >>> formatter = AutoDateFormatter(locator)
     >>> formatter.scaled[1/(24.*60.)] = '%M:%S' # only show min and sec
 
     A custom :class:`~matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter` can also be used.