Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory usage when plotting sequental figures

[Albert K. <alb...@gm...>]

Correct.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:42 AM, zetah <ot...@hu...> wrote:

> Albert Kottke wrote:
> >
> >I had this problem as well. I think my solution was to tell the
> >garbage collector to collect.
> >
> >import gc
> >import numpy as np
> >import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> >
> >def draw_fig(arr, fn):
> >    fig = plt.figure()
> >    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> >    ax.contourf(arr)
> >    plt.savefig(fn)
> >    plt.close(fig)
> >    gc.collect()
> >
> >I tried to test this with Python3.3, but didn't have any issues
> >with memory increasing when using 'plt.close'.
>
>
> Thanks Albert, that indeed does the trick :)
>
> If I understand your last sentence, you are saying garbage collector
> intervention isn't needed for Python 3.3.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>