Hide wrong values of a graph
Forgive me for I'm not familiar with matplotlib but I'm presuming that you're reading the csv file directly into matplotlib. If so is there an option to read the csv file into your app as a list of ints or as a string and then do the data validation before passing that string to the library?  
Apologies if my idea is not applicable.
I am building graphics using Matplotlib and I sometimes have wrong values in my Csv files, it creates spikes in my graph that I would like to suppress, also sometimes I have lots of zeros ( when the sensor is disconnected ) but I would prefer the graph showing blank spaces than wrong zeros that could be interpreted as real values.