Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

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

On 6/13/12 4:06 PM, Steven Boada wrote:
>
> Well I am doing a lot more than this simple example shows. Point is that
> there are nine different points each with their own legend entry.
>
> I could put it all out of the for loops, but it is all already written,
> and I'd rather just fix the legend at the end than move sections of the
> code around. I'm willing to do it, if that is the only choice, but I
> wanted to ask before I commit my time.
>
> Wouldn't it be a good (smart) thing for the code to lump all the points
> with the same label together? This would be a great feature to be added IMO.

Assuming that you already have ten scatter plots, change the labels on 
the ones you don't want in the legend to '_nolegend_' (see help(legend))

for i in range(10):
   gca().collections[i].set_label('_nolegend_')
gca().collections[0].set_label('the one label I want')
legend()
draw()

M