Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend for a single line

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Dominique" == Dominique Orban <Dom...@po...> writes:

    Dominique> However, if I plot only one line, the legend appears
    Dominique> vertically:

    >>>> plot( [1,2,3], [4,5,6] ) legend( ( 'line1' ), 'lower right' )
    >>>> show()

    Dominique> Finally,

    >>>> plot( [1,2,3], [4,5,6] ) legend( ( 'line1', ), 'lower right'
    >>>> ) show()

    Dominique> (note the comma after 'line1') produces the horizontal
    Dominique> text.

    Dominique> This isn't a big deal, but I am not sure where in
    Dominique> legend.py I should fix that.

This isn't a legend bug exactly, but perhaps legend could detect this
common error and warn you.  Legend expects a sequence of legend
labels.  When you pass it

'my label' or equivalently ('my label') you are simply passing it a
string which is a length 8 sequence of characters.  When you pass it
('my label', ) you are passing a length 1 tuple with a string as the
first element.

Admittedly legend could be smarter, and just "do what you mean".

JDH