Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to get a figure's number?

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:

    Fernando> Hi all, I wonder how I can get, in an easy way, the
    Fernando> number of a figure returned by a call to figure(None).
    Fernando> The nasty way is:

    Fernando>          allnums = [f.num for f in
    Fernando> _pylab_helpers.Gcf.get_all_fig_managers()] if allnums:
    Fernando> num = max(allnums) + 1 else: num = 1

    Fernando> but this seems horrible for everyday, user-level code.
    Fernando> What I want to do is simply be able to make a call to:

    Fernando> ff=figure()

    Fernando> and then later make a series of plots which go to that
    Fernando> figure:

    Fernando> myplotfunc(fignum=ff.num) myplotfunc2(fignum=ff.num) ...

What if we just attach the num attribute in the pylab figure function

    figManager.canvas.figure.num = num
    return figManager.canvas.figure