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Matplotlib Legend

The legend() function in matplotlib is used to place a legend on the axes. It takes attributes like loc to specify the legend location, bbox_to_anchor to specify coordinates, and ncol for number of columns. Other attributes include shadow, markerscale, numpoints, fontsize, facecolor, and edgecolor.

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Matplotlib Legend

The legend() function in matplotlib is used to place a legend on the axes. It takes attributes like loc to specify the legend location, bbox_to_anchor to specify coordinates, and ncol for number of columns. Other attributes include shadow, markerscale, numpoints, fontsize, facecolor, and edgecolor.

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Matplotlib.pyplot.

legend()
A legend is an area describing the elements of the graph. In the matplotlib library,
there’s a function called legend() which is used to Place a legend on the axes.
The attribute Loc in legend() is used to specify the location of the legend.Default
value of loc is loc=”best” (upper left). The strings ‘upper left’, ‘upper right’, ‘lower
left’, ‘lower right’ place the legend at the corresponding corner of the axes/figure.
The attribute bbox_to_anchor=(x, y) of legend() function is used to specify the
coordinates of the legend, and the attribute ncol represents the number of columns
that the legend has.It’s default value is 1.

Syntax:
matplotlib.pyplot.legend([“blue”, “green”], bbox_to_anchor=(0.75, 1.15), ncol=2)
The Following are some more attributes of function legend() :
 shadow: [None or bool] Whether to draw a shadow behind the legend.It’s
Default value is None.
 markerscale: [None or int or float] The relative size of legend markers
compared with the originally drawn ones.The Default is None.
 numpoints: [None or int] The number of marker points in the legend
when creating a legend entry for a Line2D (line).The Default is None.
 fontsize: The font size of the legend.If the value is numeric the size will
be the absolute font size in points.
 facecolor: [None or “inherit” or color] The legend’s background color.
 edgecolor: [None or “inherit” or color] The legend’s background patch
edge color.
Ways to use legend() function in Python –
Example 1:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# X-axis values
x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

# Y-axis values
y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]

# Function to plot
plt.plot(x, y)

# Function add a legend


plt.legend(['single element'])

# function to show the plot


plt.show()
Output :

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