Remove box around legend?

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I see lots of examples on how to play around with the legend, adding
columns, shadow, etc... Is there a way to remove the box so that
all you see are the items of things being plotted with no box around
them?

   Also, keeping the box but removing the black outline around the box
is good enough since it would look like there is no box.

                                                Joseph Smidt

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Hi,

legend.draw_frame(False) should do the trick. Check out
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html?highlight=draw_frame#matplotlib.legend.Legend.draw_frame

Cheers,
Chaitanya

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Joseph Smidt<josephsmidt@...287...> wrote:

I see lots of examples on how to play around with the legend, adding
columns, shadow, etc... Is there a way to remove the box so that
all you see are the items of things being plotted with no box around
them?

Also, keeping the box but removing the black outline around the box
is good enough since it would look like there is no box.

                                           Joseph Smidt

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Physics and Astronomy
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Irvine, CA 92697-4575
Office: 949-824-3269

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Thank you! That did it. I thought I read the webpage you sent 10
times, but didn't even notice. Thanks.

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chaitanya Krishna<icymist@...287...> wrote:

Hi,

legend.draw_frame(False) should do the trick. Check out
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html?highlight=draw_frame#matplotlib.legend.Legend.draw_frame

Cheers,
Chaitanya

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Joseph Smidt<josephsmidt@...287...> wrote:

I see lots of examples on how to play around with the legend, adding
columns, shadow, etc... Is there a way to remove the box so that
all you see are the items of things being plotted with no box around
them?

Also, keeping the box but removing the black outline around the box
is good enough since it would look like there is no box.

                                           Joseph Smidt

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Office: 949-824-3269

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I often set the alpha on the frame so it is translucent, which in some
cases is preferable to turning the frame off entirely::

  leg = ax.legend(fancybox=True)
  leg.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)

JDH

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Joseph Smidt<josephsmidt@...287...> wrote:

Thank you! That did it. I thought I read the webpage you sent 10
times, but didn't even notice. Thanks.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chaitanya Krishna<icymist@...287...> wrote:

Hi,

legend.draw_frame(False) should do the trick. Check out
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html?highlight=draw_frame#matplotlib.legend.Legend.draw_frame