Thanks Francesco, but I've also tried to use the "draw_frame(False)" method
with no luck.
montefra wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I usually do like this
>
> l = ax.legend( (rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('set1', 'set2'))
> l.draw_frame(False)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francesco
>
> 2011/11/9 magurling <magurl...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I want a legend without the black border. I've tried a few things that
>> have
>> been suggested on this forum and elsewhere to no avail. According to what
>> I've seen, it should be as simple as:
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> import numpy as np
>>
>> N = 5
>> Means1 = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
>> Means2 = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
>>
>> ind = np.arange(N) # the x locations for the groups
>> width = 0.20 # the width of the bars
>>
>> fig = plt.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>> rects1 = ax.bar(ind, Means1, width, color='k')
>> rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, Means2, width, color='w')
>>
>> ax.legend( (rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('set1', 'set2'), frameon=False )
>>
>> plt.show()
>>
>>
>> It all works except for "frameon=False"
>>
>> I get this:
>>
>> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/axes.pyc in legend(self, *args,
>> **kwargs)
>> 4042
>> 4043 handles = cbook.flatten(handles)
>> -> 4044 self.legend_ = mlegend.Legend(self, handles, labels,
>> **kwargs)
>> 4045 return self.legend_
>> 4046
>>
>> TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'frameon'
>>
>> I've also checked my matplotlibrc under the "Legend" section and I don't
>> see
>> a "legend.frameon" line.
>>
>> It must be something simple that I am doing wrong. Any ideas?
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