Can't make dates appear on x-axis in pyplot - python-3.x

Question

So I've been trying to plot some data. I have got the data to fetch from a database and placed it all correctly into the variable text_. This is the snippet of the code:
import sqlite3
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
from dateutil.parser import parse
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# Twin the x-axis twice to make independent y-axes.
axes = [ax, ax.twinx(), ax.twinx()]
# Make some space on the right side for the extra y-axis.
fig.subplots_adjust(right=0.75)
# Move the last y-axis spine over to the right by 20% of the width of the axes
axes[-1].spines['right'].set_position(('axes', 1.2))
# To make the border of the right-most axis visible, we need to turn the frame on. This hides the other plots, however, so we need to turn its fill off.
axes[-1].set_frame_on(True)
axes[-1].patch.set_visible(False)
# And finally we get to plot things...
text_ = [('01/08/2017', 6.5, 143, 88, 60.2, 3), ('02/08/2017', 7.0, 146, 90, 60.2, 4),
('03/08/2017', 6.7, 142, 85, 60.2, 5), ('04/08/2017', 6.9, 144, 86, 60.1, 6),
('05/08/2017', 6.8, 144, 88, 60.2, 7), ('06/08/2017', 6.7, 147, 89, 60.2, 8)]
colors = ('Green', 'Red', 'Blue')
label = ('Blood Sugar Level (mmol/L)', 'Systolic Blood Pressure (mm Hg)', 'Diastolic Blood Pressure (mm Hg)')
y_axisG = [text_[0][1], text_[1][1], text_[2][1], text_[3][1], text_[4][1], text_[5][1]] #Glucose data
y_axisS = [text_[0][2], text_[1][2], text_[2][2], text_[3][2], text_[4][2], text_[5][2]] # Systolic Blood Pressure data
y_axisD = [text_[0][3], text_[1][3], text_[2][3], text_[3][3], text_[4][3], text_[5][3]] # Diastolic Blood Pressure data
AllyData = [y_axisG, y_axisS, y_axisD] #list of the lists of data
dates = [text_[0][0], text_[1][0], text_[2][0], text_[3][0], text_[4][0], text_[5][0]] # the dates as strings
x_axis = [(parse(x, dayfirst=True)) for x in dates] #converting the dates to datetime format for the graph
Blimits = [5.5, 130, 70] #lower limits of the axis
Tlimits = [8, 160, 100] #upper limits of the axis
for ax, color, label, AllyData, Blimits, Tlimits in zip(axes, colors, label, AllyData, Blimits, Tlimits):
plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%m/%d/%Y')) #format's the date
plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.DayLocator())
data = AllyData
ax.plot(data, color=color) #plots all the y-axis'
ax.set_ylim([Blimits, Tlimits]) #limits
ax.set_ylabel(label, color=color) #y-axis labels
ax.tick_params(axis='y', colors=color)
axes[0].set_xlabel('Date', labelpad=20)
plt.gca().set_title("Last 6 Month's Readings",weight='bold',fontsize=15)
plt.show()
The code currently makes this graph:
Graph with no x-values
I understand the problem is probably in the ax.plot part but I'm not sure what exactly. I tried putting that line of code as ax.plot(data, x_axis, color=color however, this made the whole graph all messed up and the dates didn't show up on the x-axis like i wanted them to.
Is there something I've missed?
If this has been answered elsewhere, please can you show me how to implement that into my code by editing my code?
Thanks a ton

Answer 1

Apparently x_data is never actually used in the code. Instead of
ax.plot(data, color=color)
which plots the data against its indices, you would want to plot the data against the dates stored in x_axis.
ax.plot(x_axis, data, color=color)
Finally, adding plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate() just before plt.show will rotate the dates nicely, such that they don't overlap.