Re: [Matplotlib-users] Check if figure exists

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Christopher Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I have a figure:
> 
> h = pp.figure(num=14)
> 
> What is the best way to check to see if Figure 14 exists? I'm writing a 
> function that adds plots to a figure window. I want the function to 
> check if the figure exists, and if so, turn off autoscaling (using 
> Eric's suggested axes.set_autoscale_on(False)) in case the user has zoomed.
> 


I added two functions to pyplot in svn: fignum_exists(num) and 
get_fignums() so that with future releases you won't have to delve into 
_pylab_helpers for this information.

Eric