This seems to a be common misconception...
I guess in future, we could add a check to the add_patch method to see if
the given artist already has an associated Axes, and if it does, emit a
warning.
On 7 September 2012 07:42, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 2012/09/06 8:35 PM, jonasr wrote:
> > That seems to work, thank you.
> >
> > I would have thought that the add_patch function creates two seperate
> > objects independent of the defined Rectangle.
>
> add_patch doesn't create any objects; it just attaches the axes to the
> patch in both directions: a reference to the patch object is appended to
> a list of axes artists, and the patch object gets a reference to the
> axes. Fortunately, python has garbage collection to handle such
> circular references.
>
> Eric
>
> >
> > greets jonas
>
>
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