Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

[Steven B. <bo...@ph...>]

The

gca().collections.set_label('label') works great.

Admittedly, I'm not sure why it works. I'm not that great with the 
collections stuff. But thanks!

S

On 06/13/2012 03:22 PM, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 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
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Steven Boada
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
Texas A&M University
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