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How to show legend elements horizontally in Matplotlib?
To show legend elements horizontally, we can take the following steps
- Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
- Using plot() method, plot lines with the labels line1, line2 and line3.
- Place a legend on the figure using legend() method, with number of labels for ncol value in the argument.
- To display the figure, use show() method.
Example
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.50, 3.50] plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True line1, = plt.plot([1, 2, 3], label="line1") line2, = plt.plot([3, 2, 1], label="line2") line3, = plt.plot([2, 3, 1], label="line3") plt.legend(ncol=3, loc="upper right") plt.show()
Output
Updated on: 02-Jun-2021
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