Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend

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

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Gruel <hu...@ya...> writes:

    Nicolas> Hello, I have some question on the legend.

    Nicolas> the first is perhaps a bug:

    Nicolas> I was trying something like:

    Nicolas> plot([1,2,3],[2,3,4],label='toto') legend()

    Nicolas> I can't obtain a legend, instead I have an error
    Nicolas> message. So perhaps I didn't understand at all the
    Nicolas> message I obtain with: help(legend) (it's possible with
    Nicolas> my poor english :) ) or there are a problem.

Yep, it's a bug.  Replace the indicate line from axes.py

   loc = kwargs.gry('loc', 1)
                
with 

   loc = kwargs.get('loc', 1)
                ^^^

Note to self: run pychecker more often.

    Nicolas> second things: I would like to have the box create by the
    Nicolas> legend commande behind my plot and not above because it
    Nicolas> hide some of the point. Perhaps another solution is to
    Nicolas> put the box bacground in "alpha mode" but I don't know
    Nicolas> how to do this.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6039503&forum_id=33405

JDH