Python matplotlib: memory not being released when specifying figure size

Question

I\'m using matplotlib to generate many plots of the results of a numerical simulation. The plots are used as frames in a video, and so I\'m generating many of them by repeatedly

Answer 1

From the docstring for pylab.figure:

In [313]: pylab.figure?

If you are creating many figures, make sure you explicitly call "close" on the figures you are not using, because this will enable pylab to properly clean up the memory.

So perhaps try:

pylab.close()     # closes the current figure