Re: [Matplotlib-users] prevent line breaks in legends

[Paul B. <peb...@gm...>]

John,

Since this appears to be a recurrent problem, would it not be better to tes=
t
for a string and then not do the iteration. In other words, the iteration
should be done only for lists and tuples.

-- Paul

On 9/30/05, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Christian" =3D=3D Christian Meesters <mee...@un...> write=
s:
>
> Christian> Hi, I'm looping over a list like this
> Christian> ['name',[data_array],'name2',[data_array2],...] like
> Christian> this:
>
> Christian> for x,y in zip(toplot_list,linestyles): if type(x) =3D=3D
> Christian> type(array([])): pylab.plot(wavelengths,x,'k%s'% y)
> Christian> pylab.legend(toplot_list[toplot_list.index(x)-1])
>
> Christian> Now there is a problem with the legend, that I don't
> Christian> see all names, but only the last. I seems to me like
> Christian> the names get superposed, though I cannot see
> Christian> this. Anyway, if I have a name like 'hello' the entry
> Christian> in the legend looks like: h e l l o Well, this is not
> Christian> quite the behaviour I wanted. Does anybody know how to
> Christian> increase the size of the legend automatically so that
> Christian> all names can be written out? Or is it possible to
> Christian> prevent line break somehow?
>
> Call the legend outside the list with a list of lines and labels you
> want to pass to it. The strange 'hello' artifact you are seeing is
> because 'hello' is a string and the legend code is iterating over it.
>
> Something like
>
> lines =3D []
> labels =3D []
> for val in something:
> lines.extend(plot(val))
> labels.append(somelabel)
> legend(lines, labels)
>
>
> Or using autolegend
> for val in something:
> plot(val, label=3Dsomelabel)
> legend()
>
>
> JDH
>
>
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