Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for memory tips for interactive use

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

>>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:
    Fernando> Oh, I don't think it's necessarily a leak.  Simply a ton
    Fernando> of unreachable stuff lying around, which a call to
    Fernando> gc.collect() may help with.

I hope you're right -- matplotlib uses a lot of cyclic references.
But if he's using the pylab interface to manage the figure windows,
the destroy event of the window manager already triggers a call to
gc.collect in the _pylab_helpers module.

JDH