Daniel Hyams, on 2010-10-29 17:07, wrote: > 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.
I think you can just get what you want using: plt.plot([3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5], label='awesome') plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1,1),loc=2) where loc=2 could have also been written as loc='upper left' > > Ascii art is fun! :) Indeed! P.S. Your posts made it to this and the devel list - they (frustratingly) don't send you your own copy back when you post something. I usually verify that the post went through my checking gmane or sourceforge archives. best, -- Paul Ivanov 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
