Matplotlib giving error “OverflowError: In draw_path: Exceeded cell block limit”

Question

I\'m trying to render an image using matplotlib with 100000000 data points and it produces the error OverflowError: In draw_path: Exceeded cell block limit

Answer 1

Maybe the problem is because matplotlib uses default inline plotting, which means it connects the points. There's some limit to the points for that. But if you remove inline plotting, it might work. Try

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(x, y, 'ro', linestyle="None")

The 'ro' is for it to show red dots.