Question: Why are the curves of the data samples connected by a line?

I am attaching my txt file, graph, and code. Can you please tell me what to change in this code, or why this third straight line is coming in my graph, because I only need two curve lines. In other software like xmgrace it's showing two curves only.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

deformation, potential = np.loadtxt("poten-Rf259.txt", unpack=True)
plt.subplot(1,3,1)
plt.plot(deformation, potential, linewidth=1, color='b')
plt.xlabel("$deformation$")
plt.ylabel("potential")
plt.yscale("log")
plt.show()


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Answer:
It's simply because you are plotting one line for one set of x,y data, not two lines; hence the one line has to join all points. Try
 p.scatter(deformation, potential, s = 2,  color='b')

and see your data as it should be shown. As these are data points this is more appropriate anyway.