Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory usage

No problem. This caught me out a long time ago and has also caught out
a few people I know.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:23 PM, CASOLI Jules <jul...@ce...> wrote:
> Hooo, well done! This is it.
>
> I didn't knew about caching...
> I was indeed using ipython, but I did led some test using the basic python interpreter,with same results, so I did not mention this point.
> In fact, python's basic interpreter still records the last three outputs. As my tests were really short (plt.close() ; mpl.cbook.report_memory() ; gc.collect() is only two lines before the collect, only o)ne o,f theme outputt ing something) even pyhton's caching was still at work, and the garbage collector could not free anything.
>
> Thanks a lot, and also thanks to Ben for taking interest !
>
> Jules
>
> PS : Gary, sorry, for the duplicated mail...