Remove the legend on a matplotlib figure

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To add a legend to a matplotlib plot  one simply runs legend     How to remove a legend from a plot    The closest I came to this is to run legend     in order to empty the legend from data  But that leaves an ugly white rectangle in the upper right corner

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You could use the legend s set visible method   ax legend   set visible False  draw     This is based on a answer provided to me in response to a similar question I had some time ago here   Thanks for that answer Jouni - I m sorry I was unable to mark the question as answered    perhaps someone who has the authority can do so for me

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According to the information from  naitsirhc  I wanted to find the official API documentation  Here are my finding and some sample code   I created a matplotlib Axes object by seaborn scatterplot    The ax get legend   will return a matplotlib legned Legend instance  Finally  you call  remove   function to remove the legend from your plot   ax   sns scatterplot          lg   ax get legend    lg remove    If you check the matplotlib legned Legend API document  you won t see the  remove   function  The reason is that the matplotlib legned Legend inherited the matplotlib artist Artist  Therefore  when you call ax get legend   remove   that basically call matplotlib artist Artist remove    In the end  you could even simplify the code into two lines  ax   sns scatterplot         ax get legend   remove

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If you are not using fig and ax plot objects you can do it like so   import matplotlib pyplot as plt    do plot specifics plt legend     plt show

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As of matplotlib v1 4 0rc4  a remove method has been added to the legend object   Usage   ax get legend   remove     or  legend   ax legend          legend remove     See here for the commit where this was introduced

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If you want to plot a Pandas dataframe and want to remove the legend  add legend None as parameter to the plot command   import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib pyplot as plt  df2   pd DataFrame np random randn 10  5   df2 plot legend None  plt show

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you have to add the following lines of code   ax   gca   ax legend    None draw     gca   returns the current axes handle  and has that property legend

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I made a legend by adding it to the figure  not to an axis  matplotlib 2 2 2   To remove it  I set the legends attribute of the figure to an empty list   import matplotlib pyplot as plt  fig   plt figure   ax1   fig add subplot 111  ax2   ax1 twinx    ax1 plot range 10   range 10  20   label  line 1   ax2 plot range 10   range 30  20  -1   label  line 2    fig legend    fig legends       plt show

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if you call pyplot as plt  frameon False is to remove the border around the legend  and    is passing the information that no variable should be in the legend   import matplotlib pyplot as plt plt legend    frameon False

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