How to reduce this data from a text file to a line graph (Python)

Question

I have data in a .txt file (the file is called numbers.txt) that I'd like to display graphically (line graph). The contents of the file are something like

6 8 2 4 8 // 1 6 8 9 3 // 1 6 8 5 6 // 3 5 6 8 9 //

where // represents a new row.

What I would like to do is write some code that would take a column, for example the first (6 ,1 ,1 ,3) and display it on a line graph. So this graph would have the coordinates (1, 6), (2, 1), (3, 1), (4, 3).

I'm new to python, so I can imagine this is basic stuff. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

What about something like this?

with open('numbers.txt') as f:             # read file
    data = [list(map(int, S.split()))      # numbers as integers
            for s in f.read().split(' //') # from split string
            if (S:=s.strip())]             # walrus operator python ≥ 3.8


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# create axes
ax = plt.subplot() 

# set up X values
xs = list(range(1, len(data)+1))

# plot each line
for i, ys in enumerate(zip(*data), start=1):
    ax.plot(xs, ys, label=f'line_{i}')
ax.legend()

output: