Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend with multiple histograms

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

>>>>> "kristen" == kristen kaasbjerg <co...@ya...> writes:

    kristen> Hi everyone Does anyone know how to asign different
    kristen> patches in legend when plotting 2 or more histograms in
    kristen> the same figure.  I've tried:
    kristen> legend((patches1,patches2),(hist1,hist2)) ,

    kristen> but this gives the same patches in the legend inset.

I'm assuming patches1 and patches2 are the return values from hist, in
which case they are each a *list* of patches.  What you want to do is
pass a *single* item from each of those lists as representative
patches.

  legend( (patches1[0],patches2[0]), ('label1', 'label2') ) 

Next time if you post a more complete code snippet, I won't have to
guess what patches1 and patches2 are!

Hope this helps,


JDH