Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow memory leak in pylab mode?

[K.-Michael A. <kmi...@gm...>]

On 2010-07-16 18:48:48 +0200, Eric Firing said:

>> 
>> Furthermore,
>> deleting images from ax.images does not free memory :
> 
> Maybe because ipython is keeping a reference to every AxesImage object
> that you make...
> 
> Eric

Well, maybe, but why does it not happen for John? His penultimate post 
showed, that his iPython session does not have this problem? Is there a 
setting that might influence this apart from the hold state?

Michael