Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend outside plot?

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

  I hate to be the first one to comment on this post but I forgot to give
the error message and version of matplotlib. The error is,

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./multi_file_test_2.py", line 460, in <module>
     ax.legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('IO Time', 'Total Elapsed Time'), 
bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=2);
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 
3617, in legend
     self.legend_ = mlegend.Legend(self, handles, labels, **kwargs)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'bbox_to_anchor'


The version of matplotlib I'm using is, 0.98.3-4ubuntu1

Jeff


>    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
>
>
>
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