How to plot data from a file?
Is it possible to plot data imported from an ASCII file.
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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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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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Asked: 2012-10-05 06:28:03 +0100
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