Hi, I'm trying to get matplotlib to give me a plot where the legend is
outside
the axes.
I saw several posts about this in the mailing list archives, but none
of them
really seem to provide workable solutions. Using Figure.legend() doesn't
really
put the legend outside the figure, because it doesn't resize the axes, so the
legend just overlaps the figure.
In the spirit of open source, I thought I'd try to do it myself. But I
can't
even figure out how the various matplotlib objects are being positioned in the
window. Like, I can get some info about the axes with axes.get_position(), and
I can get some info about the legend with
legend.get_window_extent().get_bounds(), but the former is just proportional
size information relative to the figure as a whole, and the second is in some
coordinates I don't know how to interpret. How can I get information about the
bounding boxes of the actual plot (i.e., the axes and plot area including ticks
and labels) and the legend, in compatible numbers that will allow me to
determine whether they overlap?
Or, alternatively, is there some easier way to get legends to NEVER
overlap
lines? I'm rather surprised that there seems to be no way to guarantee this,
since it seems like an obvious thing to want, and also since there seem to be a
bunch of requests for it on the mailing list.
Thanks for the help.
--
--Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path,
and leave a trail."
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