Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend outside plot?

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

  On 02/11/2011 03:48 AM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jeff Layton<lay...@at...>  wrote:
>>   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
>>
> I'm quite sure that the *bbox_to_anchor* parameter is introduced later
> than 0.98.
> I think you have a few options,
>
>   * use "loc" parameter.
>   * see if "figlegend" helps.
>   * create a empty axes just for the purpose of drawing the legend.
>   * upgrade to 1.0.1 and I highly recommend it if you can.
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ

I was worried about that. I will try to update my system but it's
an old Ubuntu 8.10 system. Looks like I have an excuse to
upgrade Ubuntu :)

Thanks!

Jeff