Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using labels with "twinx()"

[Klonuo U. <kl...@gm...>]

Thanks JJ,

`axes_grid1` seems to handle this issue

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Klonuo Umom <kl...@gm...> wrote:
> > How to deal with this, without manually positioning legends and if possible
> > including all annotated plot lines in one legend?
>
> *twinx* creates a new axes. Thus there are TWO axes, and you need to
> do some manual adjustment. I believe that the solution suggested by
> Stephen George is essentially the best way, although you may try to
> tweak things using the Axes.get_legend_handles_labels method (
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/legend_guide.html#what-to-be-displayed
> ).
>
> Alternatively, you can try the axes_grid1 toolkit which automatically
> merges legends for you. Check out the example below.
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#example-1-twinx
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ