is there any alternative to savefig?

[kiwanuka]

On Jan 28, 12:29 pm, kiwanuka <robert.kiwan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone knows any alternative function in pylab (or
> otherwise) that could be used to save an image. My problem is as
> follows:
>
> ---------------
> from pylab import *
> ...
>
> figure(1)
> fig1 = gca()
> figure(2)
> fig2 = gca()
> figure(3)
> fig3 = gca()
>
> for i,data_file in enumerate(data_file_list):
>    time,x, y,x2, y2 = read_csv_file_4(open
> (data_file),elements=num_of_elements)
>    fig1.plot(-x,-y,color=colours[i],label=labellist[i])
>    fig2.plot(time,-y,color=colours[i],label=labellist[i])
>    fig3.plot(time,-x,color=colours[i],label=labellist[i])
>
> fig1.legend(loc='best')
> fig1.set_title("y1 - x1")
> fig1.set_ylabel("y1")
> fig1.set_xlabel("x1")
> #savefig("y1-x1.png")
>
> fig2.legend(loc='best')
> fig2.set_title("y1 - time")
> fig2.set_ylabel("y1")
> fig2.set_xlabel("time[s]")
> #savefig("y1-time.png")
>
> fig3.legend(loc='best')
> fig3.set_title("x1 - time")
> fig3.set_ylabel("x1")
> fig3.set_xlabel("time[s]")
> #savefig("x1-time.png")
> show()
> ---------------------------
>
> In the above code, I read multiple data files and plot three separate
> figures. Now I would like to save each of the figures to a file as the
> commented savefig satements suggest. The trouble is that if I
> uncomment all those savefig statements, I get three saved images all
> containing the plot belonging to figure(3), which was the last figure
> declared.
>
> I understand this to be happening because savefig will save the
> "current" figure, which in this case happens to be the last one
> declared.
>
> If I could do something like fig1.savefig("y1-x1.png") or savefig("y1-
> x1.png").fig1, this would solve the problem but I'm not aware of any
> such methods  or modules to enable this. This is thus a flaw in the
> general design/implementation of the savefig function, but is there an
> alternative function to enable me achieve what I need? Is there
> perhaps a possible tweak to savefig to make it do the same?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Robert

Problem solved.