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How to make custom legend in matplotlib

I currently generate my legend with matplotlib this way:

if t==25:     l1,l2 = ax2.plot(x320,vTemp320,'or',x320,vAnaTemp320,'-r') elif t==50:     l3,l4 = ax2.plot(x320,vTemp320,'ob',x320,vAnaTemp320,'-b') else:     l5,l6 = ax2.plot(x320,vTemp320,'og',x320,vAnaTemp320,'-g') plt.legend((l1,l2,l3,l4,l5,l6), ('t=25 Simulation', 't=25 Analytical','t=50 Simulation', 't=50 Analytical','t=500 Simulation', 't=500 Analytical'),    bbox_to_anchor=(-.25, 1), loc=2, borderaxespad=0.,prop={'size':12}) 

Which somehow works see 1. But I have duplicated information in my legend.

I would prefer to seperate the legend. So that I have different colored lines corresponding to the time t. And a normal line as my Analytical solution an dots for the results of my simulation.

Something like that

--(red line) t = 25

--(blue line) t = 50

--(green line) t = 500

o Simulaton

-- Analytical Solution

Does anyone now how I could achieve this with matplotlib?

The current image

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tune2fs Avatar asked Nov 09 '12 07:11

tune2fs


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1 Answers

You can chose the artists and labels to display in the legend as follows. You'll need to create custom artists for the elements in the legend that are not actually plotted.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np  x = np.linspace(0,10,31)  fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)  #Plot analytic solution ax.plot(x,1*x**2, color='r', label="t = 25") ax.plot(x,2*x**2, color='b', label="t = 50") ax.plot(x,3*x**2, color='g', label="t = 500")  #Plot simulation ax.plot(x,1*x**2, color='r', linestyle='', marker='o') ax.plot(x,2*x**2, color='b', linestyle='', marker='o') ax.plot(x,3*x**2, color='g', linestyle='', marker='o')  #Get artists and labels for legend and chose which ones to display handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels() display = (0,1,2)  #Create custom artists simArtist = plt.Line2D((0,1),(0,0), color='k', marker='o', linestyle='') anyArtist = plt.Line2D((0,1),(0,0), color='k')  #Create legend from custom artist/label lists ax.legend([handle for i,handle in enumerate(handles) if i in display]+[simArtist,anyArtist],           [label for i,label in enumerate(labels) if i in display]+['Simulation', 'Analytic'])  plt.show() 

Example plot

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Mr. Squig Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 05:09

Mr. Squig