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# Figure legend demo

Instead of plotting a legend on each axis, a legend for all the artists on all the sub-axes of a figure can be plotted instead.

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2)

    x = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.02)
    y1 = np.sin(2*np.pi*x)
    y2 = np.exp(-x)
    l1, l2 = axs[0].plot(x, y1, 'rs-', x, y2, 'go')

    y3 = np.sin(4*np.pi*x)
    y4 = np.exp(-2*x)
    l3, l4 = axs[1].plot(x, y3, 'yd-', x, y4, 'k^')

    fig.legend((l1, l2), ('Line 1', 'Line 2'), 'upper left')
    fig.legend((l3, l4), ('Line 3', 'Line 4'), 'upper right')

    plt.tight_layout()
    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.082 seconds)

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