Transparent legend in Bokeh

Question

In Matplotlib the legend function has a keyword argument called fancybox that makes the legend slightly transparent to see the lines behind the legend. Here is an example function call:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.legend(fontsize='xx-small', loc='best', fancybox=True)

I can't find anything similar to this in Bokeh. Does anyone know if Bokeh has the functionality to make a plot transparent without going behind the scenes and monkey patching something in for it? Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm using bokeh 1.0.2 and the following worked for me:

# Make legend fully transparent
plot.legend.background_fill_alpha = 0.0