Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for additional help about moving a legend

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Thursday, May 31, 2012, solarg wrote:

> hello all,
>
> i've tried it on my laptop, but got this error at the last line:
>
>  >>> fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_extra_artists=(lgd,),
> bbox_inches='tight')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
>
> "/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
> line 1084, in savefig
>     self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
>   File
>
> "/Users/me/python/virtualenv/bmfvca6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py",
> line 1894, in print_figure
>     in kwargs.pop("bbox_extra_artists", [])]
> TypeError: get_window_extent() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>
> does it mean that i need to upgrade to python 2.7 ?
>
> thanks in advance for help,
>
> gerard
>
>
Unlikely.  Which version of matplotlib? It might be a bug in an older
version of mpl.

Ben Root