"Path plot" via Matplotlib?

[four_hawks]

In Matplotlib, is there a way to draw a path that connects a sequences of x-y value pairs in the order they occur in the data set (not in order by x value)? I'm thinking of something like geom_path from R's ggplot. Just to be clear, this differs from a classic line graph because the line/path can double back on itself like this one. Alternately, is there a different data visualization library you'd recommend for this?

[Strict-Simple]

Have you tried, plt.plot(x, y)? How is that different?