Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend woes.

[Goyo <goy...@gm...>]

2012/6/13 Mike Kaufman <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?

Maybe you can adapt this to your use case:

for i in range(10):
     x=rand()
     y=rand()
     collection = scatter(x,y,label='point')

legend((collection,), ('Label',))
show()

Goyo