[FIXED] plot multiple lists

Issue

I am Building a GUI by Python and want to plot the the daily bonus of employees depends on the user plotting target:

Bob=[100,30,50,90]
Sammy=[10,60,90,200] 
Tom=[70,90,90,90]

# input from GUI User is Tom
ploting_target='Tom'

if ploting_target=='Tom':`
   plt.plot([0,1,2,3], Tom)

elif ploting_target=='Sammy':
   plt.plot([0,1,2,3], Sammy)

plt.plot([0,1,2,3], Tom)

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#expecting  
#find_target=list_of_employee.index(ploting_target)

#plt(plot([0,1,2,3], list_of_employee[find_target])

Solution

Your question is unclear. If you have a list of employees, you can probably use Pandas to organize your data (almost the same as @JohanC suggested with dict):

# pip install pandas
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Bob = [100, 30, 50, 90]
Sammy = [10, 60, 90, 200] 
Tom = [70, 90, 90, 90]

df = pd.DataFrame({'Bob': Bob, 'Sammy': Sammy, 'Tom': Tom})
df.index = 'Date ' + df.index.astype(str)

Output:

>>> df
       Bob  Sammy  Tom
Day 0  100     10   70
Day 1   30     60   90
Day 2   50     90   90
Day 3   90    200   90

Now you can do df.plot():

Or for a specific employee df['Sammy'].plot():

Or for a list of employees (but not all) df[['Bob', 'Tom']].plot():

Answered By - Corralien