Re: [Matplotlib-users] Saving a basemap plot background

[Jose Gomez-D. <jgo...@gm...>]

Jeff,
Solved, I think!

2009/3/3 Jose Gomez-Dans <jgo...@gm...>:
> OK, I wasn't aware of this. However, memory consumption still flies. I am
> aware that it could be other bits of the program that are eating up loads of
> memory, but I don't know how to test where the bottleneck is. In the end, I
> resorted to getting rid of basemap instances, but the problem persists.
> There must be something in what I'm doing that's eating memory up, but I'm
> not sure how to check what it is.

A message to the list suggested that calling pyplot.close( fig_num)
freed up the memory used, which I'm happy to report, is happening. I
still haven't managed to "cut and paste" a background into my figures,
but we'll get there... eventually!!!

Thanks!
Jose