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

[Francesco M. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Andreas,

2012/7/26 Andreas Hilboll <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.

If the plot attached it's fine for you it's easy:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ax = plt.subplot()  #create the axes
ax.set_axis_off()  #turn off the axis
....  #do patches and labels
ax.legend(patches, labels, ...)  #legend alone in the figure
plt.show()

Cheers,
Francesco

>
> Any help is greatly appreciated :)
> Andreas.
>
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