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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def plot_line(axes, fname, ltype):
 """plot the ecliptic plane line on the given axes."""

    x = np.genfromtxt(fname, unpack=True)
    axes.plot(x[0], x[1], ltype)