Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting slow in directories with many files

2010-10-18 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > matplotlib, under normal usage, doesn't list all files in the current > directory.  Can you provide the steps you perform before calling > show()?  What platform are you on, and which backend are you using?\ The only thing I could think

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting slow in directories with many files

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
matplotlib, under normal usage, doesn't list all files in the current directory. Can you provide the steps you perform before calling show()? What platform are you on, and which backend are you using? Mike On 10/18/2010 05:54 AM, mfabulous wrote: > Hi, > > I encountered this particular proble

[Matplotlib-users] plotting slow in directories with many files

2010-10-18 Thread mfabulous
Hi, I encountered this particular problem quite often now. If you use matplotlib in a directory that contains a large number of files, things become extremely slow after calling pylab.show(). I suspect the interface internally lists all files in that directory? I often have to plot from director