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Placing the legend outside the plot in Matplotlib
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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To place the legend outside the plot in Matplotlib, use the bbox_to_anchor argument of the legend method:
plt.plot([1,2], label="my_line")plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1))plt.show()
This would output the following:
The bbox_to_anchor argument is used to specify the precise placement of the legend. It takes two parameters: the x position and the y position. The actual graph itself is 1 unit by 1 unit, and the origin (0,0) is set to the bottom-left corner while the right-top corner is given the position of (1,1). Therefore, a bbox_to_anchor of (1.05, 1) places our legend outside the graph by 0.05 units to the right of the graph.
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