On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to the legend doc,
>
> If label is set to '_nolegend_', the item will not be shown in
> legend.
>
> But I think the documented behavior a bit ambiguous. For example,
> consider the example below.
>
> l1, = plot([1,2,3], label="_nolegend_")
> l2, = plot([2,3,1])
> legend(["my line"])
>
> I suppose the legend should show *l2* with "my line" label. But the
> current master branch shows "l1" with "my line" label.
>
> In other words, in the current implementation, when the legend command
> is called with a single nonkeyword argument (which is interpreted as a
> list of labels), the given labels are applied to all the artists
> regardless whether the artist has a label of "_nolegend_" or not.
>
> While there could be some cases that have relied on this behavior, I'm
> inclined to fix this so that artists w/ "_nolegend_" are ignored.
> However, fixing this requires "hist" command to be modified (there
> could be more commands that need modification).
>
> Unless there is no objection from other developers, I'll go ahead and
> commit the patch to fix this.
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
>
I agree, the current behavior is buggy.
Ben Root
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