[Tutor] Help with Matplotlib labels
Sean Carolan
scarolan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 03:26:36 CEST 2012
> Unfortunately my graph is generated dynamically. How can I create my
> legend when my 'bar' objects have no names to refer to?
>
> for admin in bd:
> bar(ind, bd[admin], width, color=colordict[admin])
> xticks(ind+width/2., datenames)
> legend()
> grid('on')
> outfile = 'testfile.png'
> savefig('/var/www/'+outfile)
> return outfile
I found the solution to this problem, one of the optional kwargs for
the pyplyt.bar() function is "label". Once I assigned that, legend()
worked fine.
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