My matplotlib.pyplot legend is being cut off

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Eventhough that it is late, I want to refer to a nice recently introduced alternative:

New matplotlib feature: The tight bounding box

If you are interested in the output file of plt.savefig: in this case the flag bbox_inches="tight" is your friend!

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure(1)
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 0, 1], label="A")
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 2], label="B")
plt.legend(loc="center left", bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0))

fig.savefig('samplefigure', bbox_inches="tight")

Output file: samplefigure.png

I want to refer also to a more detailed answer: Moving matplotlib legend outside of the axis makes it cutoff by the figure box

Advantages

  • There is no need to adjust the actual data/picture.
  • It is compatible with plt.subplots as-well where as the others are not!
  • It applies at least to the mostly used output files, e.g. png, pdf.

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