remove colorbar from figure in matplotlib

Question

This should be easy but I\'m having a hard time with it. Basically, I have a subplot in matplotlib that I\'m drawing a hexbin plot in every time a function is called, but ev

Answer 1

I needed to remove colorbars because I was plotting a pcolormesh and adding colorbar to a figure in a loop. Each loop would create a new colorbar and after ten loops I would have ten colorbars. That was bad.

To remove colorbars, I name the pcolormesh and colorbar a variable, then at the end of my loop I remove each. It is important to remove the colorbar before removing the pcolormesh.

Psudo Code:

 for i in range(0,10):
   p = plt.pcolormesh(datastuff[i])
   cb = plt.colorbar(p)
   plt.savefig('name_'+i)

   cb.remove()
   p.remove()

Again, it was necessary to remove the colorbar before the pcolormesh