matplotlib, under normal usage, doesn't list all files in the current 
directory.  Can you provide the steps you perform before calling 
show()?  What platform are you on, and which backend are you using?

Mike

On 10/18/2010 05:54 AM, mfabulous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered this particular problem quite often now. If you use matplotlib
> in a directory that contains a large number of files, things become
> extremely slow after calling pylab.show(). I suspect the interface
> internally lists all files in that directory?
>
> I often have to plot from directories with huge amounts of data, is there a
> way to change that behavior?
>
> Regards,
>
> Maximilian
>    


-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA


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