Re: [Matplotlib-users] Remove box around legend?

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

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Joseph Smidt<jos...@gm...> wrote:
> Thank you!  That did it.  I thought I read the webpage you sent 10
> times, but didn't even notice.  Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chaitanya Krishna<ic...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> legend.draw_frame(False) should do the trick. Check out
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html?highlight=draw_frame#matplotlib.legend.Legend.draw_frame


I often set the alpha on the frame so it is translucent, which in some
cases is preferable to turning the frame off entirely::

  leg = ax.legend(fancybox=True)
  leg.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)

JDH