Re: [Matplotlib-users] Garbage collection?

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Sarah" == Sarah Mount <mou...@gm...> writes:
    Sarah> Ah! Well, I guess I just didn't read the doc's
    Sarah> properly. pylab.close() seems to do the
    Sarah> trick. Interestingly, the amount of garbage still seems to
    Sarah> grow monotonically, but much, much slower and everything
    Sarah> seems to be kept in memory and not swap.

Or perhaps the docs just weren't explicit enough!

I added the following to the pylab.figure docstring:

    If you are creating many figures, make sure you explicitly call "close"
    on the figures you are not using, because this will enable pylab
    to properly clean up the memory.

JDH