Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend(loc='best') not so great

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

OK, I've attached my sanitized example

Benjamin Root wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Neal Becker
> <ndb...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> I tried a scatterplot with legend(loc='best'), but the legend
>> appears on the upper right, covering a data point.  There is nothing
>> anywhere
>> in the graph on the upper left, which is where 'best' should go.
>>
>>
> A small, self-contained example would be most useful.  The logic for 'best'
> isn't the greatest, but it should work in most cases.  If you could provide
> an example of where this blatantly breaks, it might uncover a bug.
> 
> Cheers!
> Ben Root