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When I scroll through my data on a matplotlib 3d surface I get a recursion eror although there is no explicit place where recursion is used.


my code to display the surface (z data stored in zlines array) is:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
...
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
...
def display_plot(currentFrameNumber):
    Z = zlines[currentFrameNumber]
    ax.clear()
    ax.set_zlim(0.0, 400.0)
    ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, cmap="magma")
    plt.show() 

I scroll through the zlines using a button:

from matplotlib.widgets import Button
...
class Index(object):
    def next(self, event):
        self.__frameNumber  += 1
        display_plot(self.__frameNumber )
...
callback = Index()
axnext = plt.axes([0.81, 0.05, 0.09, 0.075])
bnext = Button(axnext, '>')
bnext.on_clicked(callback.next)

When I press the next button the display correctly shows the next zlines frame. If I do this about 43 times then I get the recursion error:

Error:
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\cbook\__init__.py", line 387, in process
    proxy(*args, **kwargs)
...
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 949, in __getitem__
    val = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

it is something to do with plt.show() because if i remove that call then although it isn't displayed correctly I get no recursion error.
I'm sort of new to python and matplotlib so maybe someone more experienced can more clearly see the error ?