Hi,
I would simply try to attach the legend to the figure object instead of the
axis.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Layton <layto...@att.net> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I've been trying to find a way to move the legend outside
> the plot so it doesn't cover it up. I've seen some things
> online but I can quite get them to work (probably just my
> lack of knowledge about matplotlib).
>
> The section of code creating the plot looks like,
>
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1);
>
> p1 = ax.bar(ind, IO_Time_Plot, width, color="r", align='center');
> p2 = ax.bar(ind, Diff_Plot, width, color="y",
> bottom=IO_Time_Plot, align='center');
>
> ax.set_ylabel('Time (secs)');
> ax.set_title('Elapsed Time and IO Time',fontstyle='italic');
> ax.set_xticks(ind);
>
> group_labels = [];
> for item in names:
> group_labels.append(item);
>
> ax.set_xticklabels(group_labels);
>
> fig.autofmt_xdate();
>
> #ax.legend( bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=2, borderaxespad=0.);
> ax.legend( (p1[0], p2[0]), ('IO Time', 'Total Elapsed Time'));
>
>
>
> You can see my attempt at moving the legend outside the bounding box
> but when I try this, the legend never appears.
>
> TIA!
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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