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How to plot data from a file?

asked 2012-10-05 06:28:03 +0100

anonymous user

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Is it possible to plot data imported from an ASCII file.

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answered 2012-10-05 08:06:16 +0100

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Suppose that you have a file '/tmp/DataFile' containing the following text

3;2
2;1
1;0.1
0.01;-0.9

Then you can load the two data columns into two arrays xArr and yArr by the following code

f = open('/home/tobi/tmp/DataFile', 'r')

xArr=[]
yArr=[]
line=f.readline()
while(line !=''): 
    xy=line.split(';')
    xArr.append(float(xy[0]))
    yArr.append(float(xy[1]))
    line=f.readline()

Now you can do whatever you want with these array, for example plot them

list_plot(zip(xArr,yArr))

If you like to understand better what open and readline does look at Python doc input output, the split command is explained in the Python doc on strings

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Does this work on a Windows system or only Linux? I tried to upload a .txt file using a Windows computer and the file could not be found.

ian gravatar imageian ( 2013-01-15 23:46:44 +0100 )edit
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answered 2012-10-05 10:10:28 +0100

calc314 gravatar image

You can also use Python's csv module. If your data is in a .csv file and you have uploaded it to the notebook, you can do something like:

import csv
data =list( csv.reader(open(DATA+'DataFile.csv','rU')) )
data = map(lambda x: [float(x[0]),float(x[1])],data)
list_plot(data)
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