Eric Firing wrote:
> In general, I don't think mpl is threadsafe at all; it uses global
> variables, such as all the rc parameters, that could easily be modified
> by one thread while being used by another.
Yep, I guessed as much, BFL it is then ;-)
> I think that great care
> would be needed if one wanted to have multiple threads making plots.
> Having one plotting thread and any number of threads doing other things,
> however, should be OK.
Out of interest, how does one tell MPL to "start a new figure and forget
everything that's gone before"?
> At the very least, I think we would have to take all the global state
> information and put it in a class instance, so there could be multiple
> plotting machines.
Yes.
cheers,
Chris
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