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Is it legend(loc='auto') or legend(loc='best')? I always used the latter. I think that http://matplotlib.org/api/legend_api.html supports me here.
-Sterling
On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:31AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> I would also like to point out that you can specify "auto" for a location, and matplotlib will attempt to find a good location for you (within the plot area). It isn't perfect, but it can be useful.
> 
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Skip Montanaro <sk...@po...> wrote:
> > 1. PNG file of figure without legend.
> > 2. PNG file of legend only.
> >
> > The end user would import both images into another tool (e.g. microsoft
> > power point) and arrange figure and legend interactively for the final
> > product.
> 
> As someone pointed out to me not long ago, you can call
> 
> my_legend.draggable(True)
> 
> then drag the legend where you want (in normal pointer mode). Then you
> just need to save the figure and not worry about fiddling with it
> later.
> 
> Skip Montanaro
> 
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