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Legends cut off in Jupyter Notebooks when plotting with %matplotlib notebook command #9163
Description
Bug report
When using matplotlib in a Jupyter Notebook with the magic %matplotlib notebook, legends placed outside of the axis are cut off.
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# probably unnecessary/overkill, but reset all parameters to default
plt.rcParams.update(plt.rcParamsDefault)
%matplotlib notebook
fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=1, nrows=1)
ax.plot(range(10), label="Plot 1")
ax.plot(range(10, 0, -1), label="Plot 2")
ax.legend(loc='center right', bbox_to_anchor=(1.20, 0.5))Actual outcome
Expected outcome
The legend would be fully displayed as in the following example. This plot obtained by switching to %matplotlib inline
Matplotlib version
- Operating System: Windows 7, x64
- Matplotlib Version: 2.0.2
- Python Version: 3.6.2
- Jupyter Server: 5.0.0
- Other Libraries:
Matplotlib and python were installed using Anaconda
Additional Information
This seems similar to #2530
Activity
jklymak commented on Sep 7, 2017
The legend is cut off if you do fig.savefig('Test.pdf') as well.
%matplotlib inline is just letting you see off the edge of the figure, whereas %matplotlib notebook is giving you a more what-you-see-is-what-you-get view. If you want yout legend over there, you can make the axis smaller (fig.subplots_adjust=0.85).
An automatic soultion could be offered by fig.tight_layout(), but tight_layout() doesn't take into account legends (yet. see #9130).
jklymak commented on Sep 7, 2017
OK, I made a pull request: #9164
timhoffm commented on Jul 16, 2020
Closed by #9164.