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Allow range selector to work for sub-second steps

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
43/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data-visualization

Research direction

Start by tracing how plotly.py validates or serializes rangeselector buttons for Scatter plots, focusing on the allowed step values named in the issue. Confirm the change by exercising rangeselector with nanosecond, microsecond, and millisecond steps and verifying that the resulting plot configuration is accepted.

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Description

feature P3

I commonly have time series dataframes with sub-second frequencies (milli/micro/nano) and I would like to use Scatter plots with rangeselector to visualize them. Issue is rangeselector's buttons can only be provided with a step included in the following:

['month', 'year', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second', 'all']

I would like to be able to pass as well: nanosecond, microsecond, and millisecond.

I am not familiar with the plotly.py codebase but I am happy to open a PR provided I can have some guidance.

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