Matplotlib remove patches from figure

问题

In my case, I want to remove one of the circle when clicking reset button. However, ax.clear() would clear all circles on the current figure.

Can someone tell me how to remove only part of the patches?

import matplotlib.patches as patches
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.widgets import Button

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111) 

circle1 = patches.Circle((0.3, 0.3), 0.03, fc='r', alpha=0.5)
circle2 = patches.Circle((0.4, 0.3), 0.03, fc='r', alpha=0.5)
button = Button(plt.axes([0.8, 0.025, 0.1, 0.04]), 'Reset', color='g', hovercolor='0.975')
ax.add_patch(circle1)
ax.add_patch(circle2)

def reset(event):
    '''what to do here'''
    ax.clear()

button.on_clicked(reset)
plt.show()

回答1:

Try this:

def reset(event):
    circle1.remove()

Also maybe you prefer:

def reset(event):
    circle1.set_visible(False)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21687571/matplotlib-remove-patches-from-figure