How to put the legend out of the plot

Question

I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, a

Answer 1

don't know if you already sorted out your issue...probably yes, but... I simply used the string 'outside' for the location, like in matlab. I imported pylab from matplotlib. see the code as follow:

from matplotlib as plt
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
t = A[:,0]
sensors = A[:,index_lst]

for i in range(sensors.shape[1]):
    plt.plot(t,sensors[:,i])

plt.xlabel('s')
plt.ylabel('°C')
lgd = plt.legend(loc='center left', bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0.5),fancybox = True, shadow = True)