How to clear memory completely of all Matplotlib plots

Question

I have data analysis module that contains functions which call on Matplotlib pyplot API multiple times to generate up to 30 figures in each run. These figures get immediatel

Answer 1

I have data analysis module that contains functions which call on Matplotlib pyplot API multiple

Can you edit your functions which is calling matplotlib? I was facing the same issue, I tried following command but none of it worked.

plt.close(fig)
fig.clf()
gc.collect()
%reset_selective -f fig

Then one trick worked for me, instead of creating a new figure every time, I pass the same fig object to the function and this solved my issue.

for example use,

fig = plt.figure()
for i in range(100):
    plt.plot(x,y)

instead of,

for i in range(100):
    fig = plt.figure()
    plt.plot(x,y)