Python, plot matrix diagonal elements

Question

I have an 120x70 matrix of which I want to graph diagonal lines.

for ease of typing here, I will explain my problem with a smaller 4x4 matrix.

index	2020	2021	2022	2023
0	1	2	5	7
1	3	5	8	10
0	1	2	5	3
1	3	5	8	4

I now want to graph for example starting at 2021 index 0 so that I get the following diagonal numbers in a graphs: 2, 8, 10

or if I started at 2020 I would get 1, 5, 5, 4.

Kind regards!

Answer 1

You can do this with a simple for-loop. eg:

matrix = np.array((120, 70))
graph_points = []
column_index = 0  # Change this to whatever column you want to start at
for i in range(matrix.shape[0]):
    graph_points.append(matrix[i, column_index])
    column_index += 1
    if column_index >= matrix.shape[1]:
        break

## Plot graph_points here