I realized after sending that off that I need to provide more
context....sorry about that.

What I'm trying to do can be boiled down to the following:  I'm trying to
place a legend precisely, using the top left corner of legend as the
"sticky" point.  In other words, if I want to place the legend here:

+---------------------------------+-----------+
|                                 |           |
|                                 |  legend   |

|                   The plot...   |-----------+

|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
+---------------------------------+

I would have thought that I would set bbox_to_anchor = (0,0,1,1), and loc =
(1,1).  I found out quickly, though, that this places the legend like this:
                                  +-----------+
                                  |           |
                                  |  legend   |
+---------------------------------+-----------+
|                                 |
|                                 |

|                   The plot...   |

|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
|                                 |
+---------------------------------+

Which makes perfect sense from matplotlib's perspective.  So all I need to
do is figure out how tall the legend is, and subtract that off the y
coordinate before passing 'loc' off to matplotlib's legend.  I just can't
seem to figure out how to get that number.  I tried
self.ax.get_legend().get_frame().get_height(), but that just returns 1 all
the time.

Ascii art is fun! :)



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