[Matplotlib-users] legend outside of the plot

[Christian M. <mee...@un...>]

Hi,

As far I understand this a plot is per default covering the more or less whole 
space. Now, is it possible to position a legend outside of a plot, e.g. on 
the right of the plot. "legend" offers to supply the loc-argument with a 
tuple to do that, but that doesn't create more space and hence most legends 
will appear truncated. The only solution I came up with is to limit the 
plotting area (using "axes") and to position the legend manually. Is there an 
alternative?

TIA
Cheers
Christian