matplotlib.pyplot will not forget previous plots - how can I flush/refresh?

Question

How do you get matplotlib.pyplot to \"forget\" previous plots

I am trying to plot multiple time using matplotlib.pyplot

The code lo

Answer 1

I would rather use plt.clf() after every plt.show() to just clear the current figure instead of closing and reopening it, keeping the window size and giving you a better performance and much better memory usage.

Similarly, you could do plt.cla() to just clear the current axes.

To clear a specific axes, useful when you have multiple axes within one figure, you could do for example:

fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)

axes[0, 1].clear()