Re: [Matplotlib-users] save or pickle figure object

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Josef Koller <jk...@la...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>  I would like to save preliminary figures for later processing and
> refinement with matplotlib. Is there a way to save or pickle a figure
> object and later reload it. Matlab has a feature like that and and I was
> wondering if matplotlib has it too.

No, it doesn't exist.  We've taken a stab at it once or twice, but
have been stymied because we make extensive use of a python extension
libray CXX, and these objects have resisted our attempts to pickle
them.  With our recent transforms refactoring, which removes the
hairiest CXX dependency, it may be worth taking another look, but
noone is currently working on it.

JDH