Stop seaborn plotting multiple figures on top of one another

Question

I\'m starting to learn a bit of python (been using R) for data analysis. I\'m trying to create two plots using seaborn, but it keeps saving the second on top of

Answer 1

I agree with a previous comment that importing matplotlib.pyplot is not the best software engineering practice as it exposes the underlying library. As I was creating and saving plots in a loop, then I needed to clear the figure and found out that this can now be easily done by importing seaborn only:

import seaborn as sns

data = np.random.normal(size=100)
path = "/path/to/img/plot.png"

plot = sns.distplot(data)
plot.get_figure().savefig(path)
plot.get_figure().clf() # this clears the figure

# ... continue with next figure