#!/usr/bin/python from pylab import * y, x = loadtxt("FeAl28-sample1-2.XLS",usecols=(2,3),unpack=True)[:,5:-2] x = -x plot(x,y) data = array(ginput(2)) a,b = polyfit(data[:,0], data[:,1], 1) plot(x,a*(x+b/a)) figure() plot(x+b/a-y/a, y) show()