Hello,
Does anyone know of a way to create a legend outside the bounds of the graph? I have a stacked area chart that doesn't have any spare room. When matplotlib draws the legend it obscures the data! I looked through the available documentation and didn't see any way around this. Does anyone have any tricks that might work?
Tony Rippy
Does anyone know of a way to create a legend outside the bounds of the graph? I have a stacked area chart that doesn't have any spare room. When matplotlib draws the legend it obscures the data! I looked through the available documentation and didn't see any way around this. Does anyone have any tricks that might work?
checkout figlegend_demo.py in the matplotlib examples...
more trivial example:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from pylab import *
x=arange(0, 6, 0.1)
y=sin(x)
figure(figsize=(11,6))
axes([0.075, 0.10, 0.55, 0.78])
lines=plot(x,y)
figlegend((lines,), ("i'm outside!",), 'upper right')
show()
can play with axes/figsize if you've got long names
cheers,
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That did the trick... Thank you very much!
Tony
Peter Groszkowski wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to create a legend outside the bounds of the graph? I have a stacked area chart that doesn't have any spare room. When matplotlib draws the legend it obscures the data! I looked through the available documentation and didn't see any way around this. Does anyone have any tricks that might work?
checkout figlegend_demo.py in the matplotlib examples...
more trivial example:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from pylab import *
x=arange(0, 6, 0.1)
y=sin(x)
figure(figsize=(11,6))
axes([0.075, 0.10, 0.55, 0.78])
lines=plot(x,y)
figlegend((lines,), ("i'm outside!",), 'upper right')
show()can play with axes/figsize if you've got long names
cheers,