[Matplotlib-users] Omitting curves from a legend

[Bill B. <wb...@gm...>]

On 4/18/07, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> > There are a couple things about legend that I'm finding a little
> > irksome.  Is there some better way to do this?
> >
> > 1) if you have a contour, legend() wants to add all the contours to
> > the list.  calling contour(...,label='_nolegend_') doesn't seem to
> > help.
>
> I think it would be quite unusual that someone would want contour lines
> to show up in a legend, so I made the change I suggested in an earlier
> response to this thread: the LineCollections in the ContourSet now have
> their labels set to _nolegend_.  If someone really does want contour
> lines in a legend, these labels still can be changed manually, as
> described earlier in this thread.

You can also use colorbar() to show the levels if you want that
information to be visible, and that's probably more appropriate than a
legend anyway.  I think it's a good change.  Thanks!

--bb