triggers memory leak in fig.clf() for non-gui backends.

Jeff Whitaker · Jeff Whitaker · commit 681a6f237a1d · 2007-03-28T16:43:03.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=3136
diff --git a/unit/memleak_nongui.py b/unit/memleak_nongui.py
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+import os,matplotlib
+matplotlib.use('Agg')
+from matplotlib.figure import Figure
+from matplotlib.cbook import report_memory
+
+def plot():
+    fig = Figure()
+    i = 0
+    while True:
+        print i,report_memory(i)
+        fig.clf()
+        ax = fig.add_axes([0.1,0.1,0.7,0.7])
+        ax.plot([1,2,3])
+        i += 1
+
+if __name__ == '__main__': plot()
