[Matplotlib-users] Basemap with OO interface

2014-03-19 Thread Remo Goetschi
Dear matplotlib users, I'm having trouble using Basemap through the object oriented interface of Matplotlib. All the examples on the website use pyplot. But that does not work if plots are generated in a parallel environment, i.e., in a web application, since pyplot is obviously not thread safe.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap with OO interface

2014-03-20 Thread Remo Goetschi
Stupid me! I overlooked parameter 'ax' of class Basemap. You can pass an axis when creating a Basemap instance: ax = fig.add_axes([0., 0., 1., 1.]) map = Basemap(, ax=ax) Best, Remo On 03/19/2014 04:41 PM, Remo Goetschi wrote: > Dear matplotlib users, > > I'm havi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Still a memory leak in matplotlib?

2014-03-30 Thread Remo Goetschi
Hi Föhn, By default, the pyplot interface (recall that it is a Matlab-like state machine) does not release a figure's memory. You need to do this by hand by calling the clf() method after every plot you make: ... plt.close() plt.clf() Stackoverflow contains a few threads about the subject. Bes

[Matplotlib-users] basemap installation with Mpl 1.4 fails

2014-08-30 Thread Remo Goetschi
Dear all, It seems that installing basemap through pip install basemap --allow-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap fails with Matplotlib 1.4, both on Python 2.7 and 3.4. This used to work without problems. I attached the Python 2.7 and 3.4 tracebacks below. Does anybody have an idea on how

Re: [Matplotlib-users] basemap installation with Mpl 1.4 fails

2014-08-31 Thread Remo Goetschi
rading other packages the same way? > > Could you try a fresh virtual environment, perhaps? > > Ben Root > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Remo Goetschi <mailto:s...@libecciu.ch>> wrote: > > Dear all, > > It seems that installing basemap throug