Ok, this was my bad. I was under the [mistaken] impression (and in retrospect I'm not sure why) that the AxesGrid call just set up the geometry and the plot calls actually created the axes.
Thanks for setting me straight. M On 1/11/12 9:05 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Mike Kaufman, on 2012-01-11 19:30, wrote: >> Given the code snippet below with clf() #1 uncommented works like one >> would expect - both plots are drawn. If #1 is commented out and #2 is >> uncommented, then the figure is cleared and neither plot is drawn. Is >> this the correct behavior? It seems like a bug to me. > > Seems to me like this is the intended behavior and not a bug. I'm > not sure what you were expecting to happen with that second call > to clf. You're clearing the whole figure, so even though the > axes you have in the grid variable have references to f, f has > disowned them! > > In [39]: grid = AxesGrid(f, 111, (1,2)) > > In [40]: f.axes > Out[40]: > [<mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_divider.LocatableAxes at 0xb7c002c>, > <mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_divider.LocatableAxes at 0xb8948cc>, > <mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_grid.CbarAxes at 0xb810dac>, > <mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.axes_grid.CbarAxes at 0xb97486c>] > > In [41]: plt.clf() > > In [42]: f.axes > Out[42]: [] > > Perhaps you wanted to simply to clear the individual axes? You > can do that with [g.cla() for g in grid] instead of your call to > plt.clf() > > best, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel