Hack fix for BUG - GH24784
- [X] closes #24784 
- [X] tests added / passed - 1
- [ ] passes `black pandas`
- [ ] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
- [X] whatsnew entry - Test utility method "_check_plot_works_with_continuous_dates"  and Test case "test_continuous_dates"

Hello @itssujeeth! Thanks for updating this PR. We checked the lines you've touched for [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008) issues, and found:



* In the file [`pandas/tests/plotting/common.py`](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/common.py):

> [Line 559:1](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/common.py#L559): [E302](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E302) expected 2 blank lines, found 1

* In the file [`pandas/tests/plotting/test_series.py`](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/test_series.py):

> [Line 17:89](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/test_series.py#L17): [E501](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E501) line too long (113 > 88 characters)
> [Line 745:89](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/test_series.py#L745): [E501](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E501) line too long (109 > 88 characters)
> [Line 746:89](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/ae6bf34cb2e4b4d82990e51840d6b5f5c472e5c4/pandas/tests/plotting/test_series.py#L746): [E501](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E501) line too long (110 > 88 characters)



##### Comment last updated at 2019-08-18 18:52:40 UTC can you merge master and update to comments closing this as stale, though its a nice change, needs a rebase and comments addressed.