Re: [Matplotlib-users] close a figure after show , when plotting many figures from script- using matplotlib.pyplot.figure

[Sterling S. <sm...@fu...>]

Hari,

You can give a number to figure(), as in figure(1), and it will reuse figure 1.  Also, you can close figure 1 with pyplot.close(1).

-Sterling

On Oct 16, 2012, at 8:25AM, hari jayaram wrote:

> Hi 
> I am a relative newbie to matplotlib.
> 
> I have a python script that handles a dataset that comprises 384 sets of data.
> 
> At the present moment , I read in a set of data - process it - and the create a figure using code shown below.
> I am using windows with the default backend ( I think I set it to wx).
> 
> When I run the program, figure after figure shows up..the program continues from well to well plotting the figure. I can close the figure window using the X on the right -hand side..while the program chugs along.
> 
> Is there a way to just recycle the figure object , so that the plot shows up for a brief second and refreshes when the next calculation is complete. Each process_data function , takes a few minutes. 
> 
> Alternatively I just want to close the figure object I show after a brief lag.  I am OK if that happens instantaneously..but I dont know how to achieve this.
> Do I have to use the matplotlib.Figure object to achieve this functionality
> 
> Thanks
> Hari
> 
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> 
> from matplotlib.pyplot import figure
> 
> def do_my_plot(well_id):
>     processed_data_object = processed_dict[well_id]
>     fig = figure(figsize=(7,7)
>     ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>     par1 =ax.twinx()
>     par2 = ax.twinx()
>     # Plot all the data
>     par1.plot(processed_data_object.raw_x,processed_data_object.raw_y).
>     par2.plot(....
>     # finally
>     fig.show() 
>     # I tried  fig.clf()
> 
> 
> def plot_and_process_data():
>     for well_id in list_of_384_well_ids:
>          process_data(well_id)
>          do_my_plot(well_id)
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