Revision: 8403
http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8403&view=rev
Author: jdh2358
Date: 2010-06-09 22:05:09 +0000 (Wed, 09 Jun 2010)
Log Message:
-----------
fix legend doc typos
Modified Paths:
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trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG
trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/legend_guide.rst
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG 2010-06-09 17:57:36 UTC (rev 8402)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG 2010-06-09 22:05:09 UTC (rev 8403)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
2010-06-06 Change the way we do split/dividend adjustments in
finance.py to handle dividends and fix the zero division bug
reported
- in sf bug 2949906. Note that volume is not adjusted
+ in sf bug 2949906 and 2123566. Note that volume is not adjusted
because the Yahoo CSV does not distinguish between share
split and dividend adjustments making it near impossible to
get volume adjustement right (unless we want to guess based
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/legend_guide.rst
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/legend_guide.rst 2010-06-09 17:57:36 UTC (rev
8402)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/legend_guide.rst 2010-06-09 22:05:09 UTC (rev
8403)
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@
====================
The legend command has a following call signature::
-
+
legend(*args, **kwargs)
-
+
If len(args) is 2, the first argument should be a list of artist to be
labeled, and the second argument should a list of string labels. If
len(args) is 0, it automatically generate the legend from label
properties of the child artists by calling
-:meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_legend_handles_labels` method.
+:meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_legend_handles_labels` method.
For example, *ax.legend()* is equivalent to::
handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
* :class:`~matplotlib.patches.Patch`
* :class:`~matplotlib.collections.LineCollection`
* :class:`~matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection`
-
+
Unfortunately, there is no easy workaround when you need legend for
an artist not in the above list (You may use one of the supported
artist as a proxy. See below), or customize it beyond what is
@@ -84,28 +84,28 @@
p1, = ax.plot([1,2,3], label="line 1")
p2, = ax.plot([3,2,1], label="line 2")
p3, = ax.plot([2,3,1], label="line 3")
-
+
handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
# reverse the order
ax.legend(handles[::-1], labels[::-1])
-
+
# or sort them by labels
import operator
hl = sorted(zip(handles, labels),
key=operator.itemgetter(1))
handles2, labels2 = zip(*hl)
-
+
ax.legend(handles2, labels2)
Using Proxy Artist
------------------
-When you want to display legend for an artist not supported by the
-matplotlib, you may use other supported artist as a proxy. For
-example, you may creates an proxy artist without adding it to the axes
-(so the proxy artist will not be drawn in the main axes) and feet it
+When you want to display legend for an artist not supported by
+matplotlib, you may use another artist as a proxy. For
+example, you may create a proxy artist without adding it to the axes
+(so the proxy artist will not be drawn in the main axes) and feed it
to the legend function.::
p = Rectangle((0, 0), 1, 1, fc="r")
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