John Hunter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Josef Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I would like to save preliminary figures for later processing and
>> refinement with matplotlib. Is there a way to save or pickle a figure
>> object and later reload it. Matlab has a feature like that and and I was
>> wondering if matplotlib has it too.
>
> No, it doesn't exist. We've taken a stab at it once or twice, but
> have been stymied because we make extensive use of a python extension
> libray CXX, and these objects have resisted our attempts to pickle
> them. With our recent transforms refactoring, which removes the
> hairiest CXX dependency, it may be worth taking another look, but
> noone is currently working on it.
My sense, based on very little experience, is that pickles of
complicated objects are very fragile, so even if we could pickle
figures, I fear it might cause more trouble ("I can't load this
absolutely critical figure I pickled 6 months ago") than it would be worth.
Eric
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