Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend

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

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:

    Jochen> Hello Nicolas
    Jochen> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:34:51AM -0500, Humufr wrote:
    >> Another strange thing I remark is:
    >> 
    >> if you are doing:
    >> 
    >> plot([1,2],[4,5]) legend(('toto'))
    >> 
    >> the text for the legend is vertical and not horizontal, that's
    >> work normally when we are using more than one argument.
    Jochen> This happens because ('toto') is not a one-element list
    Jochen> but a string.  If you write

    Jochen>   plot([1,2],[4,5]) legend(('toto',))

    Jochen> instead it works as expected.

This is such a common mistake I think we should special case string
input for the labels and make it a len(1) tuple

   if is_string_like(labels): labels = (labels, )

All opposed, say nay!

JDH