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Answer by JQTs for How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
All of the previous answers are way over my head, at this state of my coding journey, so I just added another Matplotlib aspect called patches:import matplotlib.patches as mpatchesfirst_leg =...
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To build on top of gboffi's andBen Usman's answer:In a situation where one has different lines in different subplots with the same color and label, one can do something along the lines...
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Answer by gboffi for How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
TL;DRlines_labels = [ax.get_legend_handles_labels() for ax in fig.axes]lines, labels = [sum(lol, []) for lol in zip(*lines_labels)]fig.legend(lines, labels)I have noticed that none of the other answers...
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If you are using subplots with bar charts, with a different colour for each bar, it may be faster to create the artefacts yourself using mpatches.Say you have four bars with different colours as r, m,...
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Answer by gigo318 for How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
Using Matplotlib 2.2.2, this can be achieved using the gridspec feature.In the example below, the aim is to have four subplots arranged in a 2x2 fashion with the legend shown at the bottom. A 'faux'...
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This answer is a complement to user707650's answer on the legend position.My first try on user707650's solution failed due to overlaps of the legend and the subplot's title.In fact, the overlaps are...
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There is also a nice function get_legend_handles_labels() you can call on the last axis (if you iterate over them) that would collect everything you need from label= arguments:handles, labels =...
View ArticleAnswer by Saullo G. P. Castro for How do I make a single legend for many...
For the automatic positioning of a single legend in a figure with many axes, like those obtained with subplots(), the following solution works really well:plt.legend(lines, labels, loc = 'lower...
View ArticleAnswer by carla for How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
You just have to ask for the legend once, outside of your loop.For example, in this case I have 4 subplots, with the same lines, and a single legend.from matplotlib.pyplot import *ficheiros =...
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figlegend may be what you're looking for: matplotlib.pyplot.figlegendAn example is at Figure legend demo.Another example:plt.figlegend(lines, labels, loc = 'lower center', ncol=5,...
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I am plotting the same type of information, but for different countries, with multiple subplots with Matplotlib. That is, I have nine plots on a 3x3 grid, all with the same for lines (of course,...
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