[Matplotlib-users] Legend outside plot?

[Jeff L. <lay...@at...>]

  Good evening,

I've been trying to find a way to move the legend outside
the plot so it doesn't cover it up. I've seen some things
online but I can quite get them to work (probably just my
lack of knowledge about matplotlib).

The section of code creating the plot looks like,

       fig = plt.figure()
       ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1);

       p1 = ax.bar(ind, IO_Time_Plot, width, color="r", align='center');
       p2 = ax.bar(ind, Diff_Plot, width, color="y", 
bottom=IO_Time_Plot, align='center');

       ax.set_ylabel('Time (secs)');
       ax.set_title('Elapsed Time and IO Time',fontstyle='italic');
       ax.set_xticks(ind);

       group_labels = [];
       for item in names:
          group_labels.append(item);

       ax.set_xticklabels(group_labels);

       fig.autofmt_xdate();

       #ax.legend( bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=2, borderaxespad=0.);
       ax.legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('IO Time', 'Total Elapsed Time'));



You can see my attempt at moving the legend outside the bounding box
but when I try this, the legend never appears.

TIA!

Jeff