Hello, how does loc=0 (best) affects the placement of the
> legend? I can't really figure out any influence. There is
> space (on the upper left) where the legend could be
> placed without hiding any lines but it's still placed on
> the upper right.
If what you say is correct, then it is a bug. Please post a complete
example.
JDH
This might be a feature rather than a bug.
The legend auto-placement code is a bit lazy – due to the fact that I
wrote it rather than JDH 
Anyway, it only tries to avoid the points that define a line, rather
than the lines themselves.
Much of the time that works well, but since it only takes two points to
define a line you can end up with the lines crossing the legend. The
good news is that if a line does cross the legend, and you can see a
better position for the legend then it almost surely means that the
line is straight throughout the region where it crosses the legend.
Try using the pan/zoom buttons on your plot to move a point into the
legend area and it should jump out of the way.
Eg: try this little snippet – use your pan/zoom skills to position one
of the dots over the legend 
from pylab import *
plot(range(5), ‘o-’, label=‘oops’)
legend(loc=0)
show()
John
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It is correct.
But the John Gill gave me a explanation of this behavior which is correct for
my case. It is not a bug, just a lazy implementation of the feature and he is
aware of that.
Florian
Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 19:43 schrieb John Hunter:
> Hello, how does loc=0 (best) affects the placement of the
> legend? I can't really figure out any influence. There is
> space (on the upper left) where the legend could be
> placed without hiding any lines but it's still placed on
> the upper right.If what you say is correct, then it is a bug. Please post a complete
example.
I’ll have a play to see if I can make this a bit
smarter.
John
Florian Lindner wrote:
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