[Matplotlib-users] How to plot only a legend?

[Andreas H. <li...@hi...>]

Hi,

I would like to create a figure which only contains a legend, and no axes
at all. I would like to manually assign the colors. I found this here:

   http://stackoverflow.com/a/3302666

but from there on, I'd like to remove the axes, and put the legend into
three columns.

Any help is greatly appreciated :)
Andreas.