Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

[Mike K. <mc...@gm...>]

On 6/13/12 3:23 PM, Steven Boada wrote:
> Whoops, I forgot to change the subject. Sorry list.
>
> List,
>
> I'm making a scatter plot using a for loop. Here's a simple example..
>
> for i in range(10):
>       x=rand()
>       y=rand()
>       scatter(x,y,label='point')
>
> legend()
> show()
>
>
> When you do this, you get a legend entry for every single point. In this
> case, I get 9 entries in my legend.
>
> Is there a way to only get a single entry? I have looked into creating
> the legends by hand, but I'm not having much luck. Googling, only turned
> up a single example of someone else with the same problem.
>
> Help me list, you're my only hope.

Perhaps not exactly what you want, but an answer is don't use a loop:

x = rand(10)
y = rand(10)
scatter(x,y, label='points')
legend()
draw()
show()

Of course if you want to color each point differently, then this won't work.

M