[matplotlib-devel] better tick marks

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]
I've got a routine, attached, which is simple and fast, and returns very nicely spaced ticks along with the number of minor ticks. It's an old algorithm from a '73 ACM article, but tried and true. I suppose this should be implemented as a Locator, but I'm not very familiar with the pylab code.

[matplotlib-devel] memory leaks

2007-03-27 Thread Eric Firing
In 2007, two different major memory leaks have been identified: 1) Eric Pellegrini showed that a loop over figure(); close() leaks. I have verified that this occurs with any interactive backend, but not with non-interactive backends. This may be the same problem that was reported in other mes

Re: [matplotlib-devel] memory leaks

2007-03-27 Thread Eric Firing
I can add a couple of things to item (1) below. First, the problem occurs only with toolbar2, not with classic or None. Second, a script that illustrates it is attached. Eric Eric Firing wrote: In 2007, two different major memory leaks have been identified: 1) Eric Pellegrini showed that a