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Fixed 1656: Animation is Garbage Collected if not explicitly stored #8214

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Issue 1656 fixed
raychut Mar 7, 2017
31c8eec
Add missing whitespace
raychut Mar 7, 2017
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Add missing whitespace
raychut Mar 7, 2017
8ed048b
Replaced hasattr with a attribute call in Figure
raychut Mar 7, 2017
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Merge branch 'fix-1656' of https://github.com/TeamArmstrong/matplotli…
raychut Mar 7, 2017
338c861
Removed redundant try except statement
raychut Mar 7, 2017
036f46a
Removed redundant try statement
raychut Mar 8, 2017
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renamed fig.animation to fig._keep_alives
raychut Mar 9, 2017
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renamed fig.animation to fig._keep_alives
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raychut committed Mar 9, 2017
commit d7a3c77c512773556599f45340f46ed0f18b86b0
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion lib/matplotlib/animation.py
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Expand Up @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ def __init__(self, fig, event_source=None, blit=False):

# Saves the animation is the figure class to prevent Python's garbage
# collection from deleteing the animation.
fig.animations.append(self)
fig._keep_alives.append(self)

def _start(self, *args):
'''
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion lib/matplotlib/figure.py
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Expand Up @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ def __init__(self,
self._axstack = AxesStack() # track all figure axes and current axes
self.clf()
self._cachedRenderer = None
self.animations = []
self._keep_alives = []

@cbook.deprecated("2.1", alternative="Figure.patch")
def figurePatch(self):
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions lib/matplotlib/tests/test_animation.py
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Expand Up @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ def animate(i):
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pytest.xfail("There can be errors in the numpy import stack, "
"see issues #1891 and #2679")
length = len(fig.animations)
length = len(fig._keep_alives)
assert(length != 0)


Expand All @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def update_line(num, data, line):
plt.title('test')
animation.FuncAnimation(fig, update_line,
25, fargs=(data, l), interval=50, blit=True)
length = len(fig.animations)
length = len(fig._keep_alives)
assert(length != 0)


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