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Reputation: 1574

Why does legend block text in matplotlib?

I am trying to coordinate the positions of ax.legend() and ax.text(), but it looks like option loc = 'best' is not that smart

legend

clearly the legend is blocking the text, I know I can use loc = 'lower left' instead, but I am just curious, why does legend not care about text?

Here is the code

import numpy
  
## matplotlib
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import pylab
from  matplotlib import rc
rc('font', **{'family': 'sans-serif', 'sans-serif': ['Times-Roman']})
rc('text', usetex = True)
matplotlib.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = [r"\usepackage{amsmath}"]

def test_plot():
    n_columns, n_rows = 1, 1
    pylab.figure(figsize = (n_columns * 2.5, n_rows * 2.0))
    axs = {}
    xs = numpy.linspace(0.0001, 2.0 * numpy.pi, 100)

    ax = pylab.subplot(n_rows, n_columns, 1)
    axs[1] = ax
    ys = numpy.sin(xs) / xs
    ax.plot(xs, ys, label = r'$1$')
    ax.text(0.8, 0.8, r'$\frac{\sin{x}}{x}$', transform = ax.transAxes)
    ax.legend(loc = 'best', frameon = 0)

    pylab.tight_layout()
    pylab.savefig('./test.png', dpi = 2000)
    return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test_plot()

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 389

Answers (1)

Three Point 14
Three Point 14

Reputation: 150

So you want to put legend anywhere but the upper left...? You could always just use:

plt.legend(loc="upper right")

Or "left", "lower left", "center", "upper center", "lower center", "right", or "lower right"

Or if you want it to chose a random spot while avoiding "upper left":

import random

spot = ["center", "upper center", "lower center", "right", "upper right", 
"lower right", "left", "lower left"]
random_spot = spot[random.randint(0, spot.__len__() - 1)]
plt.legend(loc=random_spot, borderaxespad=1)

This should place it anywhere randomly, exept the upper left corner. It this what you need?

Upvotes: 1

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