On Feb 29, 2012, at 20:00, Bernhard Heijstek <bernhard.heijs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm trying to run a rudimentary animation code > (http://pastebin.com/ZNRhDmPR). When I don't explicitly give a name to the > FuncAnimation object, the code doesn't work. I mean, just dropping in: > anim.FuncAnimation(fig, update_figure, np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, 0.1), > interval=50) > > instead of, > > line_anim = anim.FuncAnimation(fig, update_figure, np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, > 0.1), interval=50) > > The way I see it, since both call the constructor and I don't reuse the > object anywhere else, both should work, unless the code uses some weakrefs > somewhere. If not, why isn't it working? When you don't give the animation object a name, immediately following creation nothing is referencing the animation, so it is destroyed. Ryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
