Is it legend(loc='auto') or legend(loc='best')? I always used the latter. I
think that http://matplotlib.org/api/legend_api.html supports me here.
-Sterling
On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:31AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> I would also like to point out that you can specify "auto" for a location,
> and ma
I would also like to point out that you can specify "auto" for a location,
and matplotlib will attempt to find a good location for you (within the
plot area). It isn't perfect, but it can be useful.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > 1. PNG file of figu
> 1. PNG file of figure without legend.
> 2. PNG file of legend only.
>
> The end user would import both images into another tool (e.g. microsoft
> power point) and arrange figure and legend interactively for the final
> product.
As someone pointed out to me not long ago, you can call
my_lege
Hi Peter,
just get the legend handlers and labels with
handles,labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
then create an empty plot with axes `axe` and do
axe.legend(handles, labels, loc=loc)
If you want to hide the axis:
axe.xaxis.set_visible(False)
axe.yaxis.set_visible(False)
I would like to ask if there is a way to print only the legend box of a figure.
The motiviation for wanting to do this is a work around to the problem of
having the legend box obscuring data without resorting to "outside" placement
of the legend. The idea here is that matplotlib would pr
