clearing a figure

Belinda -

The hold state is on by default when you use pylab. To clear a figure you use clf().
Here’s a brief example:
from pylab import *
figure() # Not really needed, you could have typed plot right away, but here you can set some nice features like the size

plot([1,2,3])
plot([2,1,2]) # Will appear on same figure
clf() # Clears entire figure (back to what you had with figure() )

Mark

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:50:15 -0800
From: belinda thom <bthom@…1382…>
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] clearing a figure
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Hello,

I’m a new matplotlib user, coming from the Matlab end.

Is there a standard way to create a figure (here I’d like the
equivalent of matlab’s hold on, so I can draw multiple things) and

then clear the figure (so the drawing goes away) so I can repeat the
process again? The commands to plot that I’ll be using are fairly
simple line commands.



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