Re: [Matplotlib-users] removing a plot from an axes

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

On 2014/04/18 12:21 PM, Michael Mossey wrote:
> Sorry for what is a beginnerish question but I'm having  a hard time
> using the docs. I want to remove a previous plot from an axes. How do I
> do this?

If you want to clear the axes, call the "cla()" or "clear()" method.
If you want to remove an artist such as a line, call its "remove()" method.

>
> Incidentally, it makes the docs hard to use that there are so many
> methods on Axes which are spread a great distance over the page. It
> would be nice to have a concise listing of the methods of Axes.

I agree. What is needed is a listing of methods by category instead of 
all together as a single alphabetical list.  In the meantime, you might 
find browsing the User Guide to be of some help.  Also, the "Quick 
Search" box can help.

Eric

>
> Note that I'm not using pyplot, but I think the term for what I'm doing
> is using the API. I'm subclassing FigureCanvas in PyQt, creating a
> Figure, and creating an axes using Figure.add_subplot().
>
> Mike
>
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