Is it possible to add a string as a legend item in matplotlib

Question

I am producing some plots in matplotlib and would like to add explanatory text for some of the data. I want to have a string inside my legend as a separate legend item above the '0-10' item. Does anyone know if there is a possible way to do this?

This is the code for my legend:
ax.legend(['0-10','10-100','100-500','500+'],loc='best')

Answer 1

Alternative solution, kind of dirty but pretty quick.

import pylab as plt  X = range(50) Y = range(50) plt.plot(X, Y, label="Very straight line")  # Create empty plot with blank marker containing the extra label plt.plot([], [], ' ', label="Extra label on the legend")  plt.legend() plt.show()