[Matplotlib-users] legend labelsep ignored

[Scott C. S. <s.c...@la...>]

         Hi,

         I am having a problem with legend recognizing the labelsep 
kwarg.  It recognizes and makes changes according to the other kwargs (i.e. 
handlelen, handletextsep, axespad, pad, etc.), but when I adjust the number 
for labelsep, nothing happens.  The default is 0.005 and I have tried 
numbers between 100000 and 0.0000001 with no change.  I am currently using 
Python 2.3.5, TK version 8.4 and running my scripts in IDLE 1.0.5 with the 
GTKAgg backend.  The problem I want to fix is to put more space between my 
legend labels so that when I print out the figure in a report, the labels 
don't overlap each other.  The actual legend command I am using is shown 
below.  Appreciate the help.

legend(('TC1','TC2','TC3',TC4','TC5','TC6'),loc=4,labelsep=0.05)

         Scott