Re: Closing a workstation?

  Try 'Ngl.destroy(wks)'.

  - Ivan

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004, James Boyle wrote:

> Is there any way to close a work station?
>
> Say that I want to write a python function that contours a field. I
> want to call this function many times with different data /and or
> options.
>
> However, if I repeatedly call the function eventually I get:
>
> In [95]:
> contourPressureLon.contourPressureLon(zgMeanAnomObsW,levelsObs,,lonsObsW
> ,(-300.,420.,60.),title=title)
> fatal:WorkstationInitialize: Limit reached for number of simultaneous
> GKS Workstations
> fatal:Unable to initialize layer-Can't Create
> .
> .
> .
> This ends with a rather rude bus error - In the best of all worlds this
> should never happen. It happens often enough with wrapped code and the
> error dying in the C code and not making it back to be trapped properly
> with a python exception.
> Was the wrapping of the HLU done with SWIG?
>
> So, Can you close a workstation? At the end of the function above I do
> have a 'del wks' but this is subject to the garbage collection.
> This problem can spell the end of modularity and interactive use for me.
>
> --Jim
>
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