Omitting gap values during plotting

Friends,
I have a file like below. Where i have data in row 1 to 8, then a gap, then data for row 10-16. I want matplotlib to explicitly consider this gap and not to shift the y values while plotting. How can i achieve this ?. I tried by inserting a string ‘None’ instead of gap, but i get error.

20.6 -24.0
39.0 24.3
12.7 11.8
135.8 141.4
56.6 80.9
-84.5 104.1
-28.0 -28.6
1.1 16.7

9.9 19.1
-9.8 1.5
17.4 17.0
-2.0 16.6
10.3 4.4
7.2 10.9

Bala, instead of spaces, try ‘NaN NaN’ (without quotes).

I hope that works!
Ben Root

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics@…287…> wrote:

Friends,
I have a file like below. Where i have data in row 1 to 8, then a gap, then data for row 10-16. I want matplotlib to explicitly consider this gap and not to shift the y values while plotting. How can i achieve this ?. I tried by inserting a string ‘None’ instead of gap, but i get error.

20.6 -24.0
39.0 24.3
12.7 11.8
135.8 141.4
56.6 80.9
-84.5 104.1
-28.0 -28.6
1.1 16.7

9.9 19.1
-9.8 1.5
17.4 17.0
-2.0 16.6

10.3 4.4
7.2 10.9