My matplotlib.pyplot legend is being cut off

Question

I\'m attempting to create a plot with a legend to the side of it using matplotlib. I can see that the plot is being created, but the image bounds do not allow the entire legend

Answer 1

As pointed by Adam, you need to make space on the side of your graph. If you want to fine tune the needed space, you may want to look at the add_axes method of matplotlib.pyplot.artist.

Below is a rapid example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# some data
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.1)
y1 = np.sin(x)
y2 = np.cos(x)

# plot of the data
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.6, 0.75])
ax.plot(x, y1,'-k', lw=2, label='black sin(x)')
ax.plot(x, y2,'-r', lw=2, label='red cos(x)')
ax.set_xlabel('x', size=22)
ax.set_ylabel('y', size=22)
ax.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=2, borderaxespad=0.)

plt.show()

and the resulting image: