Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter plot legend

[Jim B. <jb...@se...>]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Rich Drewes wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for the cleanest way to put a sort of legend into a scatter
> plot.  I want a legend box that says "<blue circle> is something, <red
> square> is somethingelse" and so on.  However I can't seem to set line
> labels as I can with other kinds of plots, and for some reason legend for
> prints the text that I supply vertically (and of course it doesn't print
> the <blue circle> or whatever).
> 

Hi, 

  I had that vertical text problem when i first used legend...until
John showed me my error.

I think:

legend(('aLabel',), 'upper left')   
notice that needed , after the 'aLabel'

For more than one line label:

legend(('aLabel1', 'aLabel2', 'aLabel3'), 'upper left')

...i'm still several versions behind the current matplotlib
release, so i don't know if the syntax may be different now.

Hope this helps,

Jim