Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to center a legend

> Alan said:
>> Ideally I'd be able to do something like 
>> lgd.set_items(lgd.get_items()[slice])


On 5/5/2009 1:35 PM Jae-Joon Lee apparently wrote:
> It is quite hard to modify the order of items once the legend is created. 
> Thus, I recommend you to order your items before creating the legend. 
> For example, 

>  ax = subplot(111)
>  ... plot some lines
>  lines = ax.get_lines()
>  labels = [l.get_label() for l in lines]
>  legend(lines[::-1], labels[::-1]

> I just committed some changes to the svn which makes this kind of 
> thing more handy. The legend guide is also updated with this. 

> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/178748/mpl/legend_guid/html/legend.html#adjusting-the-order-of-legend-items 



Cool.  Also, the way you demo above beats the
approach I took, so thanks for that too.

Alan