Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend off to the right

[Steve S. <el...@gm...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Ryan" == Ryan Krauss <rya...@gm...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Ryan> Is there a built-in way for pylab to put the legend off to
>     Ryan> the right of the plot.  I need to have a fairly long legend
>     Ryan> (12 entries) and I need to figure out what to do with it.
>     Ryan> (The plot is not as ugly as it sounds with 12 things on it.)
> 
> You can use a figure legend to place a legend outside the axes; see
> examples/figlegend_demo.py
> 
> JDH
> 

I played arround with something like that:

x = arange(0,5,.1)
axes([.1, .1, .75, .8])
plot(x, sin(x), x, cos(x))
y_loc = 0.917
legend(('sin', 'cos'), loc=(1.01, y_loc))

However, the downsides are:

1) You have to play arround with axes() to get the same whitespace 
arround the plot (bottom, left, top) as in a normal plot. BTW where are 
  these defined (I found nothing in my matplotlibrc)?

2) One has to adjust the 'y_loc' value for every new legend entry.

How much effort would go into adding an inside/outside switch to the 
legend() command (like in gnuplot)?

cheers,
steve

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