title: matplotlib crashing Python
body: <p>I'm new to Python and matplotlib. A simple script I wrote is crashing and I was able to reproduce the crash with the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  plt.figure(1)
  plt.figure(2)
  #plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error is <code>python.exe has stopped working</code>. If I uncomment the plt.show(), it still crashes depending on the order I close the plots (no crash if 2 is closed first, crash if 1 is closed first). I'm using Windows 7, Python 3.4, and I installed the individual modules from www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/. Do I have something configured incorrectly or a misunderstanding of how to use matplotlib?</p>