Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie : How to add a Colored legend with Text for 3d plot

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, hari jayaram <ha...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for your email Ben. Sorry I am still lost.
>
> I dont understand what the handles type is . In my example I guess the
> handles are an array of circles representing each x,y,z point.I am still a
> little lost since the plot autmatically plots my 3 arrays
> The color of each circle is arbitrary and stored a the color array.
> Even after looking at the examples I dont know how to construct
> my plt.legend() call.

Take a look at the proxy artist section of the legend guide and see if
that helps

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/legend_guide.html#using-proxy-artist

JDH