Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rectangle Bug

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

On 2012/09/06 8:35 PM, jonasr wrote:
> That seems to work, thank you.
>
> I would have thought that the add_patch function creates two seperate
> objects independent of the defined Rectangle.

add_patch doesn't create any objects; it just attaches the axes to the 
patch in both directions: a reference to the patch object is appended to 
a list of axes artists, and the patch object gets a reference to the 
axes.  Fortunately, python has garbage collection to handle such 
circular references.

Eric

>
> greets jonas