On 24. feb.. 2009, at 08.11, Eric Firing wrote: > Paul Anton Letnes wrote: >> Hello, >> I want to save a large number of figures to file, roughly like this: >> import pylab >> for i in xrange(100): >> pylab.plot(x[i], y[i]) >> pylab.savefig('plot' + str(i) + '.eps') >> pylab.figure() >> However, a large number of figure windows show up on screen, and >> eventually, the application runs out of memory and crashes. How do >> I avoid these windows? > > Replace the pylab.figure() command with pylab.clf(), or with > pylab.close(). > > Eric > >> Regards, >> Paul.
Thanks, this helps a lot. Is it possible to completely eliminate the windows popping up? Though not very important, it is still annoying that windows pop up when running a script in the background. Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users