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[Matplotlib-users] Removing text from a figure

[mameghani <ra...@ma...>]

Does anyone know if the following error message is a matplotlib bug or is it
me making a mistake? 
Is there an correct/alternative way to remove (or replace) text? Thank you,
Raphael 

from matplotlib.figure import Figure 
fig = Figure() 
caption = fig.suptitle("test") 
caption.remove() 

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module> 
    caption.remove() 
  File "C:\Programme\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\artist.py", 
line 134, in remove 
    raise NotImplementedError('cannot remove artist') 
NotImplementedError: cannot remove artist 



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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Removing text from a figure

[mameghani <ra...@ma...>]

My temporary solution is to clear the figure via clf() and to recreate the
plot without the elements I do not want any more.



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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Removing text from a figure

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:09 AM, mameghani <ra...@ma...> wrote:

> Does anyone know if the following error message is a matplotlib bug or is
> it
> me making a mistake?
> Is there an correct/alternative way to remove (or replace) text? Thank you,
> Raphael
>
> from matplotlib.figure import Figure
> fig = Figure()
> caption = fig.suptitle("test")
> caption.remove()
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
>     caption.remove()
>   File "C:\Programme\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\artist.py",
> line 134, in remove
>     raise NotImplementedError('cannot remove artist')
> NotImplementedError: cannot remove artist
>
>
>
Heh, strange... it looks like most artist objects don't actually define a
remove function.  I suppose you could do "fig._suptitle = None" in the
meantime, though.

Ben Root