Closing a plot window throws an error when in pause

[Yazington]

If I'm using plot.pause(15) and I close the window while there is a pause, the window shouldn't throw an exception, instead keep the execution going

Bug report

Bug summary

Code for reproduction

# Paste your code here
#   plt.show(block=False)
    plt.pause(15)
    self.hide()
    def hide(self):
        if plt.gcf():
            plt.clf()
            plt.cla()
            plt.close()
#

Actual outcome

# If applicable, paste the console output here
#_tkinter.TclError: can't invoke "update" command: application has been destroyed
#

Expected outcome

Matplotlib version

• Operating system:
• Matplotlib version:
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):
• Python version:
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries:

[tacaswell]

Can you please fill out the information about Matplotlib, python, system, and tk version?

This is clearly a snippet from a much larger code base, do you have a self-contained example that demonstrates this problem?

[WeatherGod]

It would also be useful to see the traceback

[anntzer]

closing for lack of activity.

[tacaswell]

I suspect that this will be fixed by #17802 .