Question

I am trying to plot some data using pylab scatter function. I’m using

pylab.scatter(X, Y)
pylab.show()

X and Y are python lists where each element is << int >> datatype. When I plot the graph using the above, I get a straight line graph. However, when I use excel to plot the same data, it is a long tailed graph. The correct distribution is the long tail. Why am I then getting a straight line when using pylab?

Answer 1

Apology! The issue was not related to pylab.

The problem was that I had initialized X and Y as –

X = Y = list()

Due to this, whatever values I inserted in list Y, it became same as X. And hence the straight line.