I guess you're providing an input data  with a wrong shape.

 aa = np.transpose([listA, listB, listC])
 plt.hist(aa, bins=4, histtype='bar',
alpha=0.75,rwidth=0.85,label=['A','B','C'])

Regards,

-JJ


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Uma S<uma.sunde...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have the same problem. If you found the solution could you please post?
>
> Thanks
>
> uma
>
>
>
> Yves-Alexandre wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to add label to a histogram with multiple data. The doc says
>> "label can also be a sequence of strings" but when I try:
>>
>> plt.hist([listA, listB, listC], bins=25, histtype='bar',
>> alpha=0.75,rwidth=0.85,label=['A','B','C'])
>>
>> I got an error:
>> "AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'startswith'"
>> (for the entire traceback see http://paste.pocoo.org/show/119820/ )
>>
>> is it me or a bug?
>>
>> Can I add a legend in another way?
>>
>> thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Yva.
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