Re: legend not covering graphs

You can call legend as follows:

plt.legend(loc=0)

and it will place the legend where it obscures as little as possible.

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[Neal Becker]

Is this the same as loc='best'?
I actually need to make extra space for the legend.  I guess this can
only be done manually?

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> You can call legend as follows:
>
> plt.legend(loc=0)
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> and it will place the legend where it obscures as little as possible.
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[Johann Rohwer]

You can use the "loc" argument in combination with "bbox_to_anchor". Not sure if you call this "manual" or "automatic" but the width of the legend is adjusted automatically and it can be placed outside the axes:

plt.figure()
plt.plot([1,3,2], label='first')
plt.plot([2,1,5], label='second')
plt.legend(loc='upper left', bbox_to_anchor=(1,1))




plt.figure()
plt.plot([1,3,2], label='first')
plt.plot([2,1,5], label='a very wide legend')
plt.legend(loc='upper left', bbox_to_anchor=(1,1))



Regards,
Johann

On 16/02/2021 19:56, Neal Becker wrote:

Is this the same as loc='best'?
I actually need to make extra space for the legend.  I guess this can
only be done manually?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM [hidden email] [hidden email] wrote:

You can call legend as follows:

plt.legend(loc=0)

and it will place the legend where it obscures as little as possible.
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