Question

If I initialize my figure in matplotlib by myfigure=Figure((5.0, 4.0), dpi=100) why cant I use figlegend(handles,labels,'upper center')? Why cant I generally use the functions that work with myfigure = plt.figure()? (If i imported like from matplotlib import pyplot as plt)

If i could how would i do that?

Regards

Answer 1

The figlegend pyplot function is a really simple wrapper to a figure method. The code for figlegend:

def figlegend(handles, labels, loc, **kwargs):
    ...
    l = gcf().legend(handles, labels, loc, **kwargs)
    draw_if_interactive()
    return l

As you can see, all you really need to do is use the legend method on a figure to achieve the same results.

HTH