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Specifying exact location of the legend in Matplotlib
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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To specify the exact location of the legend in Matplotlib, set the bbox_to_anchor and loc parameters of the legend(~) method:
plt.plot([1,2,3], label="my_line")plt.legend(loc="upper right", bbox_to_anchor=(0.7,0.9))plt.show()
Make sure to specify both the loc as well as the bbox_to_anchor parameters. You can think of the loc as the origin, and the bbox_to_anchor as the offset from this origin. The loc="upper right" means that top right corner will take on the coordinates of (0,0), and the bbox_to_anchor then shifts by 0.3 units (i.e. 30% shift) to the left, and 0.1 units (i.e. 10% shift) to the bottom.
The result is as follows:
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