I need help setting up a legend for pylab, keeps giving me errors, I think im just using the wrong syntax. legend() ?

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I need help setting up a legend for pylab,  keeps giving me errors,  I think im just using the wrong syntax.  legend() ?

mattc · Answer

kind of figured it out not sure why the syntax is how it is tho,  but i have to do plot([],[], label = 'name') and then call legend()

anonymous · Answer

mattc · Answer

do you know what line 1-3 are?
legend( (line1, line2, line3), ('label1', 'label2', 'label3') )

mattc · Answer

not a big deal, thanks for the help

anonymous · Answer

I believe they're line plots. Created with the plot function.