Re: [Matplotlib-users] Variable size markers legend formatting

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Adam Hughes <hug...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks.  That's probably the way I'll go.  At first, I thought creating
> separate legend markers and removing them from the plot seemed hacky, but I
> guess there's no way that matplotlib could know which legend size I want.
>  I wonder if there'd be any interest in a PR to add a keyword to legend to
> handle this situation?
>

Why not just work the other way around with proxy artists. IOW, make the
artists but never add them to the plot.

http://matplotlib.org/users/legend_guide.html?highlight=proxy%20artists#using-proxy-artist
(works with Line2D artists)

-p



>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...>wrote:
>
>> Adam,
>>
>> I haven't investigated, but does the discussion of the legend marker at
>> [1] help?
>>
>> -Sterling
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg25200.html
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2014, at 3:44PM, Adam Hughes wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've been searching but can't seem to find this topic addressed
>> (perhaps wrong search terms)
>> >
>> > Simply put, I have a scatter plot with variable size markers, and I'd
>> like to have the markers all be a single size in the legend.  Is there a
>> standard way to do this?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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