import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib.animation as animation

from matplotlib import style

import os

scriptDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

style.use('fivethirtyeight')

figure = plt.figure()

axis1 = figure.add_subplot(1,1,1)

def animate(i):

graph_data = open(scriptDir + os.path.sep + 'example.txt','r').read()

lines = graph_data.split('\n')

xs = []

ys = []

for line in lines:

if len(line) > 1:

x , y = line.split(',')

xs.append(x)

ys.append(y)

axis1.clear()

axis1.plot(xs,ys)

if __name__ =='__main__':

ani = animation.FuncAnimation(figure,animate,interval=2000)

plt.show()