Memory overflow when saving Matplotlib plots in a loop

Question

I am using an iterative loop to plot soame data using Matplotlib. When the code has saved around 768 plots, it throws the following exception.

RuntimeError:          


        

Answer 1

Are you remembering to close your figures when you are done with them? e.g.:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#generate figure here
#...
plt.close(fig)  #release resources associated with fig