Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to close (complitly destroy) pylab figure?

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

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:19 AM, dmitrey <dmi...@uk...> wrote:
> John Hunter wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:28 PM, dmitrey <dmi...@sc...>
>> Could you be more precise about what you mean when you say it doesn't
>> work?  It works for me, in that the figure window that was created is
>> raised, plotted into, and then destroyed.  Please tell us what you
>> expect to happen and what actually happens, as well as what backend
>> and matplotlib version you are using/.  Best is to put your code into
>> a script and run it with --verbose-helpful and post the output here
>> along with the other requested info.
>>
>
> Thanks for the feedback, I found that the code works OK from terminal, it
> just fails to close from Eric IDE (the figure continue to exist). Here's
> --verbose-helpful output (while running from the IDE)

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One problem is you have set your backend in your matplotlibrc ile to
GTKAgg (this is the default) and Eric is a Qt editor.  For starters,
you will want to set the backend the qt4agg -- see
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/faq/installing_faq.html#backends

Getting interactive python shells embedded in user interfaces to work
with matplotlib is tricky because of GUI threading issues.  ipython
has tackled this for most major GUIs, and I think they have support
for qt.  Fernando and crew will be able to advise further.

JDH