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more than 20 open figures

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data-visualization

Research direction

The warning is raised from the plotting code at climada.hazard.plot line 384, so start there and find which figure is created with matplotlib.pyplot.figure and never closed. Check whether the figure can be closed after it is drawn or returned without breaking callers. Done when the plotting path no longer triggers the 'More than 20 figures' RuntimeWarning in a run that makes many hazard plots.

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Description

warnings

RuntimeWarning

More than 20 figures have been opened. Figures created through the pyplot interface (matplotlib.pyplot.figure) are retained until explicitly closed and may consume too much memory. (To control this warning, see the rcParam figure.max_open_warning). Consider using matplotlib.pyplot.close().

Occurrence

  • climada.hazard.plot:384
Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
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