[matplotlib-devel] GC support

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Firing
Travis and others, In the course of trying to understand memory leaks in matplotlib I have been trying to understand a bit about the garbage collector. If I understand correctly, any container that can can hold references to other containers could lead to a reference cycle; if the container s

[matplotlib-devel] Qt4 bug on OSX with close()

2007-03-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone knows what the problem is (traceback at the end). If I use close() when running with the Qt4Agg backend under OSX, the figures do not close, and I get a nasty traceback instead. Perhaps the problem also exists on other OSes (I hope, so it's easier to fix), but I on