Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend labels - interaction with functions

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

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen <jk...@ik...> wrote:

> I think this behavior of legend is suboptimal, but there is a logic to
> it: by default you label objects in the order you draw them, and the
> histogram plot happens to consist of several similarly-colored objects.

The best solution would be to rewrite the hist to use a collection.
This would make legend behave properly, would be a lot faster, but
would break a fair amount of legend code.  Probably a good thing to do
for 0.98

JDH