matplotlib.pyplot.close#

matplotlib.pyplot.close(fig=None)[source]#

Close a figure window, and unregister it from pyplot.

Parameters:

figNone or int or str or Figure

The figure to close. There are a number of ways to specify this:

• None: the current figure

• Figure: the given Figure instance

• int: a figure number

• str: a figure name

• 'all': all figures

Notes

pyplot maintains a reference to figures created with figure(). When work on the figure is completed, it should be closed, i.e. deregistered from pyplot, to free its memory (see also rcParams["figure.max_open_warning"] (default: 20)). Closing a figure window created by show() automatically deregisters the figure. For all other use cases, most prominently savefig() without show(), the figure must be deregistered explicitly using close().

Examples using matplotlib.pyplot.close#

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